Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to th…

lol, Tuk called himself Tuk cause he couldn't say Charles, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tuk · What happens: call, not say · To what, where: Tuk, Charles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 884 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to the mole, flies off with the swallow, and is named Maia; then Little Tuk's story starts.» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lol	punct
3	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 called	obj
6	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
7	cause	cause	SCONJ	_	11 say	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 say	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 say	advmod
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 called	advcl
12	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 say	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Charles	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	12 Charles	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	Tuk	Tuk					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient
2	not say speech: assert	could	Tuk	Charles					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent charles=Topic

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

yeah, he couldn't say Charles so he shortened it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 shortened	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shortened	nsubj
10	shortened	shorten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shortened	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	could	he	Charles					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent charles=Topic
2	shorten	past	Charles	it					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he couldn't say it plain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	obj
8	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	could	he	it					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme plain=Manner

Option 3

yeah, he couldn't say it plain so he made up Tuk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 made	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	obj
8	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	obj
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 made	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	nsubj
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 made	compound:prt
13	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	could	he	it					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme plain=Manner
2	make up	past	he	Tuk					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tuk=Pivot

Option 4

nah, he just liked the name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 liked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 liked	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 liked	advmod
5	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 name	det
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	he	the name					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot name=Theme

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