Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 72: Rudy is jealous…

that flour sack joke from the miller was mint, wasn't it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sack joke · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: miller

This is test 5 · ★ 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	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 joke	det
2	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sack	compound
3	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 joke	compound
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mint	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 miller	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 miller	det
7	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 joke	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mint	cop
9	mint	mint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mint	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 it	cop
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 it	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mint	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 mint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that sack joke from the miller					mint property	tree rules
2	not is a	past		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

yeah, he looked like a flour sack with no flour, and the miller laughed so hard he dropped his pipe in the mill

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 sack	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sack	det
7	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sack	compound
8	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 flour	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 flour	det
11	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sack	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 laughed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 laughed	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 miller	det
15	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laughed	nsubj
16	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 hard	advmod
18	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 laughed	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dropped	nsubj
20	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 laughed	advcl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 pipe	nmod:poss
22	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dropped	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 mill	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mill	det
25	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	he			like a flour sack with no flour	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	laugh	past	the miller			hard property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drop	past	miller	miller's pipe	the mill		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme in mill=Destination

Option 2

yeah, it was a bit rubbish, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a bit rubbish				mate vocative	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he looked like a flour sack with no flour, sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 sack	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sack	det
7	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sack	compound
8	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 flour	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 flour	det
11	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sack	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sick	punct
13	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	he					like a flour sack with no flour	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

nah, the flour sack joke was daft, he was just saying the Englishman was like a sack of nothing at all

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 daft	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 joke	det
4	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sack	compound
5	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joke	compound
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daft	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 daft	cop
8	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saying	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saying	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saying	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 saying	advmod
13	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 daft	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Englishman	det
15	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sack	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sack	cop
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 sack	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sack	det
19	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saying	ccomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 nothing	case
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 sack	nmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 saying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sack joke		daft property	tree rules
2	be speech: assert	past	he	all	say property	tree rules
3	is	past	the Englishman		like a sack; of nothing	tree rules

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