Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails f…

Did the lane kids pay for Puggie's grave, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lane kids · What happens: pay

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 846 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails find a wife for their adopted son» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kids	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kids	det
3	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kids	compound
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pay	nsubj
5	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 grave	case
7	Puggie	Puggie	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 grave	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Puggie	case
9	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nah	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 pay	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present	the lane kids					for Puggie's grave	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for grave=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

Yeah, they paid a button each and then got a free ride back home

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 button	det
6	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obj
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 paid	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 got	advmod
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ride	det
12	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ride	amod
13	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	10 got	advmod
15	home	home	ADV	_	10 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	they	a button					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent button=Recipient each=Asset
2	get	past	they not said here	a free ride			then	home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ride=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they paid a button each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 button	det
6	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obj
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	they	a button					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent button=Recipient each=Asset

Option 3

Yeah, they paid a penny each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 penny	det
6	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obj
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	they	a penny					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent penny=Recipient each=Asset

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they only paid if the grave looked nice and the eldest boy said so

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 paid	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 paid	advmod
5	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 looked	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grave	det
8	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	advcl
10	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 looked	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
13	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 boy	amod
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	conj
16	so	so	ADV	_	15 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	pay	past	they		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	look a condition, not said to happen	past	the grave	nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	the eldest boy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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