Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plan…

Did the swineherd know how rare the plant was, or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: swineherd, plant · What happens: do, know, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 swineherd	det
3	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 rare	advmod
6	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 know	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 plant	det
8	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rare	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rare	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Did	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	present	the swineherd		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	the plant	rare 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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he just reckoned it was useful for ashes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reckoned	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 reckoned	advmod
5	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 useful	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 useful	cop
8	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reckoned	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 ashes	case
10	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 useful	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	he						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					for ashes; useful property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he just reckoned it was a bit of a weed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reckoned	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 reckoned	advmod
5	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bit	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bit	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckoned	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 weed	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 weed	det
12	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	he						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a bit				of a weed	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, he just reckoned it was useful for ashes and had no clue it was rare at all

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reckoned	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 reckoned	advmod
5	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 useful	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 useful	cop
8	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reckoned	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 ashes	case
10	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 useful	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reckoned	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 clue	det
14	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rare	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 rare	cop
17	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 clue	acl:relcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 rare	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	he				vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it			for ashes; useful property	tree rules
3	have	past	he not said here	no clue			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient
4	is	past	clue	no clue not said here	all	rare property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he knew it was rare but sold it anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rare	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rare	cop
7	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knew	ccomp
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 sold	cc
9	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sold	obj
11	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	9 sold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	he			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	it		rare property	tree rules
3	sell	past	he not said here	it	anyway property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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