Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Elder-Tree Mother, part 82: Little…

The old bloke with no kids, he tells tales to other kids, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old bloke · What happens: tell · To what, where: tales, other kids · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 871 «Fairy Tales, The Little Elder-Tree Mother, part 82: Little Claus tricks Great Claus into the river, and an old man begins a story from the teapot» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bloke	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bloke	amod
3	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tells	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 kids	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 kids	det
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bloke	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bloke	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tells	nsubj
9	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tells	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 kids	case
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kids	amod
13	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tells	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kids	punct
15	right	right	INTJ	_	9 tells	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the old bloke with no kids	tales	other kids				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Topic to kid=Recipient

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 loves other people's kids, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 loves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 loves	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loves	nsubj
4	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kids	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 people	case
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loves	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 loves	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 loves	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	he	other people's kids				proper property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus

Option 2

Nah, he's a teacher at the school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 teacher	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 teacher	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 teacher	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 teacher	det
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 school	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 school	det
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 teacher	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a teacher		the school			tree rules

Option 3

Nah, he sells sweets to the kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sells	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sells	nsubj
4	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sells	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 kids	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kids	det
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sells	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present	he	sweets	the kids				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme to kid=Recipient

Option 4

Yeah, he's the boy's dad, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 dad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dad	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dad	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dad	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 boy	case
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	the boy's dad and innit					tree rules

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