Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

Wait, why did the farmer hate sextons so much?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do · To what, where: farmer hate sextons

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 869 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 80: Little Claus tricks the farmer and sells him the sexton in a chest» 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	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sextons	det
6	farmer	farmer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sextons	amod
7	hate	hate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sextons	compound
8	sextons	sexton	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	you not said here	the farmer hate sextons					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sexton=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

They owed him gold coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 owed	nsubj
2	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 owed	iobj
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coins	compound
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 owed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	owe	past	They	gold coins	him = he				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal coin=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He just couldn't stand them and their long grey coats

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	5 stand	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	5 stand	advmod
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stand	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stand	advmod
5	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stand	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 coats	cc
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 coats	nmod:poss
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 coats	amod
10	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 coats	amod
11	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 them	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stand	could	He	them = they					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 3

He had simply never liked them since he was a boy at school

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	simply	simply	ADV	_	5 liked	advmod
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 liked	advmod
5	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 liked	obj
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	11 boy	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 boy	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 boy	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 liked	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 school	case
13	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boy	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	He				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not like	past	He not said here	them = they		simply property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
3	is a	past	he	a boy	school		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He just couldn't stand them

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	5 stand	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	5 stand	advmod
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stand	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stand	advmod
5	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stand	could	He	them = they					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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