Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails f…

Did the snails think they were posh, or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: snails · What happens: think, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snails	det
3	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 posh	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 posh	cop
7	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 think	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 think	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	the snails						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	snails = snail					posh property	tree rules

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

Nah, they were humble people who gave away their houses to anyone who asked for one

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 people	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 people	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 people	cop
5	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 people	acl:relcl
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 gave	advmod
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 houses	nmod:poss
11	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gave	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 anyone	case
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 gave	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 asked	nsubj
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 anyone	acl:relcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 one	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	humble people			tree rules
2	give away	past	humble people	people's houses	anyone	away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Theme to anyone=Recipient
3	ask speech: ask	past				for one	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, they were just average

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 average	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 average	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 average	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 average	advmod
6	average	average	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					average property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they thought they were the nobbest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 nobbest	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 nobbest	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nobbest	det
8	nobbest	nobb	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	they						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	they					nobb property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, they were humble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 humble	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 humble	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 humble	cop
5	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					humble property	tree rules

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