Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: t…

Ok so what's the Flea's big point, what was he moaning about?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big point, Flea · What happens: be, moan, point · To what, where: big point

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 866 «Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: the jumping contest ends, and the old oak gets ready for winter sleep» 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 what	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Flea	det
6	Flea	Flea	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 point	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Flea	case
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 point	amod
9	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 moaning	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 moaning	obj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 moaning	aux
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 moaning	nsubj
14	moaning	moan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 point	acl
15	about	about	ADP	_	14 moaning	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	the Flea's big point		tree rules
2	moan	past · progressive	Flea	the Flea's big point	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	point		the Flea		nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=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

he had no body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 body	det
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	no body					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a body is needed to be seen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 body	det
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needed	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 needed	aux:pass
4	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 seen	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 seen	aux:pass
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 needed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · passive		a body					tree rules
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	a body not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nobody saw him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	nobody	him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 4

the prize was far too small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prize	det
2	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 small	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 small	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 small	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 small	advmod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the prize					far, small property	tree rules

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