Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 1…

that Big Claus is so sus lol

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Big Claus · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 868 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 1: Big Claus kills Little Claus's only horse, and Little Claus climbs onto a shed roof to watch a feast» 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	SCONJ	_	6 sus	mark
2	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Claus	amod
3	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sus	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sus	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 sus	advmod
6	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 sus	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Big Claus					suspect property	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

fr he hits the horse with a hammer and it dies right there on the road, then he sells the skin

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hits	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hits	nsubj
3	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hits	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hammer	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hammer	det
8	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hits	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dies	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dies	nsubj
11	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hits	conj
12	right	right	ADV	_	13 there	advmod
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 dies	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 road	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 road	det
16	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dies	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sells	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 sells	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sells	nsubj
20	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hits	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 skin	det
22	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present	fr	the horse			with a hammer	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent horse=Patient with hammer=Instrument
2	die	present	horse		the road; there			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	sell	present	fr	the skin		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme

Option 2

fr he sells the horse to the butcher in town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sells	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sells	nsubj
3	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sells	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 butcher	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 butcher	det
8	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sells	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 town	case
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 butcher	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present	fr	the horse	the butcher in town				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to butcher=Recipient

Option 3

fr he kills the horse with a hammer and then pretends it was an accident when the neighbors ask him questions

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kills	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kills	nsubj
3	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kills	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hammer	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hammer	det
8	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kills	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pretends	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 pretends	advmod
11	pretends	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kills	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 accident	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 accident	cop
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 accident	det
15	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pretends	ccomp
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 ask	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 neighbors	det
18	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ask	nsubj
19	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kills	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ask	obj
21	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	fr	the horse			with a hammer	vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent horse=Patient with hammer=Instrument
2	pretend	present	fr not said here			then		tree rules
3	is a	past	horse	a accident				tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	present	the neighbors	questions	fr			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

fr he hits the horse with a hammer and it's dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hits	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hits	nsubj
3	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hits	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hammer	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hammer	det
8	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hits	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dead	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dead	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dead	cop
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hits	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present	fr	the horse				with a hammer	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent horse=Patient with hammer=Instrument
2	is	present	horse					dead property	tree rules

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