Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Rudy, part 66: an avalanche kills the un…

what trade did rudy's uncle teach him that he hated?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trade, uncle · What happens: do, teach, hate · To what, where: trade

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 855 «Andersen's Tales, Rudy, part 66: an avalanche kills the uncle, and Rudy becomes the family's hunter and guide» 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	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 trade	det
2	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rudy	rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 uncle	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 rudy	case
6	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teach	nsubj
7	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 teach	obj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 hated	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hated	nsubj
11	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	do	past	what trade		tree rules
2	teach speech: other	present	rudy's uncle	trade	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	hate	past	uncle		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

cooper, the barrel making

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cooper	cooper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 barrel	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 barrel	det
4	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cooper	conj
5	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 cooper	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund	cooper and the barrel not said here						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

cooper, the cask and barrel making trade he hated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cooper	cooper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cask	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cask	det
4	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cooper	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 barrel	cc
6	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cooper	conj
7	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 cooper	acl
8	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 making	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hated	nsubj
10	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 trade	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund	cooper and the cask and barrel not said here	trade					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trade=Product
2	hate	past	he	trade not said here					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trade=Stimulus

Option 3

the trade of cooper, making barrels from staves all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trade	det
2	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 making	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 cooper	case
4	cooper	cooper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trade	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 making	punct
6	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	barrels	barrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 making	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 staves	case
9	staves	stave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 making	obl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 making	obl:unmarked
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 making	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund	the trade of cooper	barrels		staves	day	long property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset barrel=Product from stave=Material
2	trade			cooper					nom trade «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

smithing, the iron work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	smithing	smith	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 smithing	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 work	det
4	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 work	amod
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 smithing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smith	gerund		the iron work					tree rules

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