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

Ha, what was Great Claus's dodgy plan with the bushel thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: dodgy plan

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	9 plan	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ha	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 plan	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 plan	cop
5	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Claus	amod
6	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 plan	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Claus	case
8	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plan	amod
9	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 thing	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thing	det
12	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thing	compound
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plan	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 plan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Great Claus's dodgy plan				with the bushel thing	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 · ✓ the right answer

He smeared tar 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 smeared	nsubj
2	smeared	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smeared	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smeared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smear	past	He	tar		tar			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tar=Theme on it=Destination

Option 2

He bribed the clerk

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 bribed	nsubj
2	bribed	bribe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clerk	det
4	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bribed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bribe	past	He	the clerk					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clerk=Patient

Option 3

He smeared tar on the bottom so coins would stick

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 smeared	nsubj
2	smeared	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smeared	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bottom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottom	det
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smeared	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 stick	advmod
8	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stick	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stick	aux
10	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 smeared	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smear	past	He	tar		the bottom			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tar=Theme on bottom=Destination
2	stick	would	coins						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

He sold the bushel fast

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 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bushel	det
4	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obj
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 sold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	He	the bushel				fast property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bushel=Theme

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