Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 49: a watc…

why didn't the watchman just ring the bell and give the shoes back?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: watchman · What happens: not ring, give back · To what, where: bell, shoes

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 838 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 49: a watchman wears magic goloshes and tries life as a lieutenant» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 ring	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ring	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 ring	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 watchman	det
5	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ring	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 ring	advmod
7	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bell	det
9	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ring	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 give	cc
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ring	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shoes	det
13	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 give	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	11 give	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 ring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ring	past · do-support	the watchman	the bell					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
2	give back	infinitive	the watchman not said here	the shoes					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

He didn't wanna wake everyone up, so he kept them, which was pretty selfish of him honestly

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wake	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wake	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 wake	advmod
4	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	5 wake	dep
5	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 wake	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 wake	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 kept	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	nsubj
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wake	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 selfish	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 selfish	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 selfish	cop
16	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 selfish	amod
17	selfish	selfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wake	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 selfish	nmod
20	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	5 wake	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not wake up	past · do-support	He	everyone	honestly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient
2	keep	past	he	them = they		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	is a	past		pretty selfish	of him = he	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He didn't wanna wake everyone up, so he kept them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wake	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wake	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 wake	advmod
4	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	5 wake	dep
5	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 wake	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 wake	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 kept	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	nsubj
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wake	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wake up	past · do-support	He	everyone					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient
2	keep	past	he	them = they					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

He thought the shoes were too nice to return

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shoes	det
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 nice	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 nice	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 nice	advmod
7	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 return	mark
9	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nice	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the shoes	nice property	tree rules
3	return	to-infinitive	the shoes not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He didn't have time, so he just kept walking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 kept	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kept	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 kept	advmod
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
11	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	not have	past · do-support	He	time	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	keep	past	he		tree rules
3	walk	gerund	he not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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