Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 72: Rudy is jealous…

wait, that Englishman climbed a tree and did an owl noise? what a melt

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Englishman · What happens: wait, climb, do · To what, where: tree, owl noise

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 861 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 72: Rudy is jealous of the Englishman, Babette sends him away, and Rudy walks home alone over the mountains» 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	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 what	parataxis
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 climbed	punct
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 climbed	mark
4	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 climbed	nsubj
5	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbed	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 did	cc
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 climbed	conj
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 noise	det
11	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 noise	compound
12	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 melt	det
16	melt	melt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 what	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	infinitive			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	climb	past	Englishman	a tree	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
3	do	past	Englishman not said here	a owl noise	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Eventuality

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

yeah, the only bird he could copy, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 bird	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 copy	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 copy	aux
8	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bird	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruv	punct
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bird	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	could	he	the only bird and bruv not said here					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he climbed the tree like a monkey and then hooted like an owl and fell off the branch

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 climbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 climbed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 climbed	nsubj
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 monkey	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 monkey	det
9	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hooted	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 hooted	advmod
12	hooted	hoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 climbed	conj
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 owl	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 owl	det
15	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hooted	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fell	cc
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	conj
18	off	off	ADP	_	20 branch	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 branch	det
20	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	he	the tree		like a monkey	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
2	hoot	participle	he not said here		then	like a owl	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall off	past	he not said here	the branch			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient branch=Extent

Option 3

nah, bruv, he didn't climb anything, he just stood in the garden and hooted at the moon for ages

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 climb	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bruv	punct
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 nah	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 climb	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 climb	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 climb	advmod
8	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 climb	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stood	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 stood	advmod
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 climb	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 garden	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 garden	det
16	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hooted	cc
18	hooted	hoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 stood	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 moon	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 moon	det
21	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hooted	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 ages	case
23	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hooted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not climb	past · do-support	he	anything			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location anything=Theme
2	stand	past	he		the garden		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location
3	hoot	participle	he not said here		the moon	for ages	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at moon=Location

Option 4

yeah, it was a proper owl, mate, sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 owl	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 owl	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 owl	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 owl	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 owl	amod
7	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 owl	vocative
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sound	punct
11	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 owl	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a proper owl and sound				mate vocative	tree rules

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