Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost i…
Proper gutted, was Ib really going to give Christina wooden shoes?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ib · What happens: be, go, give · To what, where: wooden shoes, Christina
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 849 «Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost in the forest, the children meet a gypsy with wishing nuts» 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 | Proper | properly | ADV | _ | 7 going | advmod |
| 2 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Proper | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Proper | punct |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | aux |
| 5 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 going | nsubj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 going | advmod |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 going | xcomp |
| 10 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shoes | amod |
| 12 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 give | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | participle | properly property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | Ib | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | Ib not said here | wooden shoes | Christina | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent christina=Recipient shoe=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 · ✓ the right answer
yes, he carved two of them for her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 carved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 carved | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carved | nsubj |
| 4 | carved | carve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 carved | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 two | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | past | he | two of them | for her = she | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent two=Product for she=Beneficiary |
Option 2
yes, he carved two of them for her and gave them with a kiss
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 carved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 carved | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carved | nsubj |
| 4 | carved | carve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 carved | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 two | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 two | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 carved | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 kiss | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 kiss | det |
| 15 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | past | he | two of them | for her = she | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent two=Product for she=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | give | past | he not said here | them = they | with a kiss | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
yes, he promised to carve them for her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 promised | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 carve | mark |
| 6 | carve | carve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promised | xcomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 carve | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 carve | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | he | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | carve not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | them = they | for her = she | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Product for she=Beneficiary |
Option 4
no, he only carved a wooden pig
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 carved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 carved | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carved | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 carved | advmod |
| 5 | carved | carve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pig | det |
| 7 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pig | amod |
| 8 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carved | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | past | he | a wooden pig | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme |
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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