Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails f…

Bruv, how many buttons did you need to get in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many buttons · What happens: need, get in

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 need	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 buttons	amod
5	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 need	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 need	aux
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 need	nsubj
8	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 get	mark
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 need	xcomp
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 get	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past · do-support	many buttons					Bruv vocative	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get in not said to happen	to-infinitive	many buttons not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

One sweet, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sweet	nummod
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mate	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sweet	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Just one trouser button

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	4 button	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 button	nummod
3	trouser	trouser	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 button	compound
4	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

You needed a whole coat full of buttons and a penny for the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 needed	nsubj
2	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coat	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coat	amod
5	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needed	obj
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coat	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 buttons	case
8	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 penny	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 penny	det
11	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coat	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 gate	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gate	det
14	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	You	a whole coat and a penny				for the gate	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot coat=Theme

Option 4

Loads of buttons, but the boys gave a discount to the smaller kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gave	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 buttons	case
3	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Loads	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boys	det
7	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 discount	det
10	discount	discount	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 kids	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kids	det
13	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 kids	amod
14	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	Loads of buttons	a discount	the smaller kids				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent discount=Theme to kid=Recipient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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