Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53:…
the travellers were joking about supper in the stable, fr?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: travellers · What happens: joke · To what, where: stable
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 842 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53: the clerk wakes at his table; the student's goloshes carry him to Italy» 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 travellers | det |
| 2 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 joking | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 joking | aux |
| 4 | joking | joke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 supper | case |
| 6 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joking | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 stable | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stable | det |
| 9 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fr | punct |
| 11 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stable | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 joking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | past · progressive | the travellers | the stable and fr | about supper | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about supper=Topic |
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 · ← Mova's choice
yes, to hide the dust
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 hide | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hide | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 hide | mark |
| 4 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dust | det |
| 6 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hide | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | to-infinitive | the dust | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Patient |
Option 2
no, not really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 really | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 really | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, to show the smell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 show | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 show | mark |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 smell | det |
| 6 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 show | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | to-infinitive | the smell | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent smell=Recipient |
Option 4
no, to keep the warmth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 keep | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 keep | mark |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 warmth | det |
| 6 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | to-infinitive | the warmth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warmth=Theme |
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