Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

so what even happened with the skins, mate?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 870 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 81: Great Claus is beaten out of town, kills his own grandmother, and nearly drowns Little Claus, who escapes with a drover's cattle» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 happened	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 happened	advmod
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 skins	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 skins	det
7	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happened	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skins	appos
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past						with the skins	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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

He sold skins and ran off

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	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sold	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ran	cc
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sold	conj
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	He	skins					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
2	run off	past	He not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing much, he just sold skins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 sold	obl
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sold	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 sold	advmod
6	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	he	Nothing					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Great Claus sold his skins for money and then left town on a cart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Claus	amod
2	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sold	nsubj
3	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 skins	nmod:poss
5	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sold	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 money	case
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 left	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 left	advmod
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sold	conj
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 cart	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cart	det
14	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	Great Claus	Claus's skins				for money	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent skin=Theme for money=Asset
2	leave	past	Great Claus not said here	town		a cart	then		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent town=Theme on cart=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Great Claus yelled for a bushel of money and got chased out of town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Claus	amod
2	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 yelled	nsubj
3	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 bushel	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bushel	det
6	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yelled	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 money	case
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bushel	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 chased	cc
10	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 chased	aux:pass
11	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 yelled	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	14 town	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 town	case
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past	Great Claus					for a bushel of money	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for bushel=Recipient
2	chase	past · passive	Great Claus not said here			town			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: out town=Trajectory

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