Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1:…

so September was the painter who whistled like a blackbird, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: September, painter · What happens: be, whistle · To what, where: painter

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 887 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1: twelve months arrive by coach, and storks gossip about a lost swan-princess» 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	_	5 painter	advmod
2	September	September	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 painter	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 painter	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 painter	det
5	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 whistled	nsubj
7	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 painter	acl:relcl
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 blackbird	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 blackbird	det
10	blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whistled	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 painter	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	5 painter	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 painter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	September	the painter					tree rules
2	whistle	past	the painter					like a blackbird	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Nope, that was October, he had a gun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	8 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 October	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 October	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 October	cop
5	October	October	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Nope	vocative
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 gun	det
10	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	October					tree rules
2	have	past	he	a gun					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, fr, and he did a hop jug too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	7 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fr	punct
3	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yep	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 did	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 jug	det
9	hop	hop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jug	compound
10	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obj
11	too	too	ADV	_	7 did	advmod

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

Option 3

Yep, fr, and he did a hop jug and a painting of the whole moor, lol

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 fr	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 did	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fr	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 jug	det
9	hop	hop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jug	compound
10	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 painting	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 painting	det
13	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jug	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 moor	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 moor	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 moor	amod
17	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 painting	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fr	punct
19	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 fr	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he	a hop jug and a painting of the whole moor					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jug=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yep, fr, and he painted the moor too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 fr	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 painted	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 painted	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 painted	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 painted	nsubj
7	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moor	det
9	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 painted	obj
10	too	too	ADV	_	7 painted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past	he	fr					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent moor=Destination

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