Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

so Great Claus chucked the sack in the river?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Great Claus · What happens: chuck · To what, where: sack, river

This is test 7 · ★ 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 chucked	advmod
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Claus	amod
3	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chucked	nsubj
4	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sack	det
6	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chucked	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chucked	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chucked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	past	Great Claus	the sack		the river			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sack=Theme in river=Destination

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

Yeah, he thought Little Claus was in it, but it was the drover

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 it	nsubj
6	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Little	flat
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 it	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 drover	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 drover	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 drover	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 drover	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 drover	det
15	drover	drover	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Little		it	tree rules
3	is a	past	it	the drover		tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, he chucked it in, thinking it was the apothecary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chucked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chucked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chucked	nsubj
4	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chucked	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	4 chucked	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thinking	punct
8	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 chucked	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 apothecary	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 apothecary	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 apothecary	det
12	apothecary	apothecary	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thinking	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	chuck in	past	he	it	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	think speech: other	gerund	he not said here		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	it	the apothecary	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, he thought it held his cousin, not the drover

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 held	nsubj
6	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	ccomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cousin	nmod:poss
8	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drover	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 drover	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 drover	det
12	drover	drover	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cousin	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hold	past	it	his cousin					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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