Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home…
Did the miller get hyped about Rudy's stories?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stories · What happens: hype · To what, where: miller
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 858 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home over the mountains, meets the strange maiden, then visits Babette at the mill» 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 | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hyped | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 miller | det |
| 3 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hyped | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hyped | aux:pass |
| 5 | hyped | hype | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 stories | case |
| 7 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stories | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Rudy | case |
| 9 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hyped | obl:agent |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hyped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hype | past · passive · do-support | Rudy's stories | the miller | 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
kinda, he said they were okay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 kinda | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 okay | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 okay | cop |
| 7 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | he | kinda property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | they | okay property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he was well into them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 was | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 was | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | he | into them = they; well property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
nah, bored
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 bored | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
nope, he yawned at every tale
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 yawned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 yawned | nsubj |
| 4 | yawned | yawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 tale | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 tale | det |
| 7 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yawned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yawn | past | he | every tale | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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