Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

is Little Claus proper clever or just lucky?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Little Claus · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Claus	amod
3	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 clever	nsubj
4	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 clever	advmod
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 lucky	cc
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 lucky	advmod
8	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clever	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 clever	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Little Claus					clever, properly property	tree rules
2	be		Little Claus not said here						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

Clever, he tricks Great Claus every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clever	clever	ADV	_	4 tricks	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Clever	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricks	nsubj
4	tricks	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Claus	amod
6	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tricks	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tricks	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	present	he	Great Claus			time	clever property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claus=Patient

Option 2

Mostly clever, he fools Great Claus a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mostly	mostly	ADV	_	2 clever	advmod
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fools	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 clever	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fools	nsubj
5	fools	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fools	obj
7	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Great	flat
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lot	det
9	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fools	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	present	he	Great				a lot obl:unmarked	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Bit of both, he tricks Great Claus every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tricks	obl:unmarked
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 both	case
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Bit	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bit	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tricks	nsubj
6	tricks	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Claus	amod
8	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tricks	obj
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tricks	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	present	he	Bit of both			time		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claus=Patient

Option 4

Really clever, he plans everything out carefully and uses the sack, the church and the drover to beat Great Claus every single time

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Really	really	ADV	_	2 clever	advmod
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 plans	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 plans	nsubj
5	plans	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 clever	parataxis
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 plans	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 plans	compound:prt
8	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	5 plans	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 uses	cc
10	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plans	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sack	det
12	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 uses	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 church	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 church	det
15	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sack	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drover	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 drover	det
18	drover	drover	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sack	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 beat	mark
20	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 uses	advcl
21	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 beat	obj
22	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Great	flat
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 time	det
24	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 time	amod
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	plan out	present	he	everything		carefully property	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic
2	use	present	he not said here	the sack and the church and the drover			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Patient
3	beat	to-infinitive	he not said here	Great	time		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location great=Theme

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