Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plan…

Wild, the ships blast the castle with cannons, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ships · What happens: blast, innit · To what, where: castle

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 847 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plant is lost and a king grieves» 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	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	5 blast	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wild	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ships	det
4	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blast	nsubj
5	blast	blast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 castle	det
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blast	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 cannons	case
9	cannons	cannon	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 castle	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 blast	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 blast	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blast	present	the ships	the castle				with cannons; Wild vocative	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent castle=Patient with cannon=Instrument
2	innit	infinitive	the ships not said here						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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they say good-day and it says many thanks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 says	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	conj
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thanks	amod
12	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Ptan	10 says	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	they				day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	it	many thanks					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic

Option 2

Yeah, they blast it, but it says nothing back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 blast	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blast	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blast	nsubj
4	blast	blast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blast	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 says	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blast	conj
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 says	obj
11	back	back	ADV	_	9 says	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blast	present	they	it					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	say back speech: assert	present	it	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 3

Nah, they just wave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wave	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wave	advmod
5	wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	present	they						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, they blast it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 blast	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blast	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blast	nsubj
4	blast	blast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blast	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blast	present	they	it					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

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