Test 11 · ★ · Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, part 63: Ib is happy an…

does Rudy hang with other kids a lot?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rudy · What happens: hang · To what, where: lot

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 852 «Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, part 63: Ib is happy and prosperous, and the story turns to Switzerland and the boy Rudy» 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	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hang	aux
2	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hang	nsubj
3	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 kids	case
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kids	amod
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hang	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hang	obl:unmarked
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	present · do-support	Rudy	a lot				with other kids	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, he sticks to his grandpa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sticks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sticks	nsubj
4	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 grandpa	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 grandpa	nmod:poss
7	grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sticks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	present	he					to his grandpa	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to grandpa=Co-Patient

Option 2

yeah, he hangs with goats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hangs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hangs	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hangs	nsubj
4	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 goats	case
6	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hangs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	present	he					with goats	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he hangs with the village kids, the travellers, and the swallows all summer long

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hangs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hangs	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hangs	nsubj
4	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 kids	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kids	det
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kids	compound
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hangs	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 travellers	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 travellers	det
11	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kids	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 swallows	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 swallows	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 swallows	det
15	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hangs	conj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 summer	det
17	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hangs	obl:unmarked
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 hangs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	present	he				summer	with the village kids and the travellers; long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he mostly keeps to himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 keeps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keeps	nsubj
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	5 keeps	advmod
5	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	he		himself = he			mostly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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