Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

How did Little Claus make the sack go squeak?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Little, you · What happens: be, make, go · To what, where: sack, squeak

This is test 5 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 make	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 make	nsubj
4	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Little	flat
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 go	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sack	det
7	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	squeak	squeak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			how property	tree rules
2	make	present	Little	the sack		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sack=Product
3	go	imperative	you not said here	squeak		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location squeak=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

He stomped on it

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 stomped	nsubj
2	stomped	stomp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stomped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stomp	past	He			it			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory

Option 2

He pinched a mouse

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 pinched	nsubj
2	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pinched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pinch	past	He	a mouse					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme

Option 3

He rubbed it hard

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 rubbed	nsubj
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rubbed	obj
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rubbed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	past	He	it				hard property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

He stomped on it with his boots and a mouse inside

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 stomped	nsubj
2	stomped	stomp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stomped	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 boots	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 boots	nmod:poss
7	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stomped	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mouse	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mouse	det
10	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boots	conj
11	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 stomped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stomp	past	He			it		with his boots and a mouse; inside property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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