Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

how did Great Claus feel at the end, mate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Great · What happens: be, feel · To what, where: end

This is test 11 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 feel	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 how	cop
3	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 feel	nsubj
4	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Great	flat
5	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						how property	tree rules
2	feel	present	Great				at the end and mate		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location

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

Proud and clever, cos he had tricked the drover

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tricked	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 clever	cc
3	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Proud	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tricked	punct
5	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	8 tricked	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tricked	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tricked	aux
8	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 drover	det
10	drover	drover	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tricked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past · perfect · passive		Proud					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Mad and fooled, cos Little Claus was alive and rich and had sold the sea-cattle for a bushel of money to the whole town

The tree, 25 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 fooled	cc
3	fooled	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mad	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 alive	punct
5	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 alive	mark
6	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Claus	amod
7	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 alive	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 alive	cop
9	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fooled	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rich	cc
11	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 alive	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sold	cc
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sold	aux
14	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 fooled	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cattle	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cattle	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 sea	punct
18	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sold	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 bushel	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bushel	det
21	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cattle	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 money	case
23	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bushel	nmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 town	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 town	det
26	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 town	amod
27	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fool	past					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Little Claus			alive property	tree rules
3	be		Little Claus not said here				tree rules
4	sell	past · perfect		the sea cattle	the whole town	for a bushel of money	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme to town=Recipient for bushel=Asset

Option 3

Happy at first, then sad and angry at the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 first	case
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Happy	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sad	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sad	advmod
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Happy	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 angry	cc
8	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Happy	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 angry	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Mad and fooled, cos Little Claus was alive and rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 fooled	cc
3	fooled	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mad	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 alive	punct
5	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 alive	mark
6	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Claus	amod
7	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 alive	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 alive	cop
9	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mad	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rich	cc
11	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	past							vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Little Claus					alive property	tree rules

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