Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Metal Pig, part 109: the boy v…
Did the boy get home in time for his tea?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: get
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 898 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Metal Pig, part 109: the boy visits the Florence churches, then is shoved around by his mother and finds a kind home» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 boy | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 tea | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tea | nmod:poss |
| 10 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 time | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the boy | time | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Nah, he never went home at all, so his mum searched the whole town for him
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 searched | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 searched | advmod |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mum | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 searched | nsubj |
| 13 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 town | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 town | amod |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 searched | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 searched | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past | he | all | home property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location | |||
| 2 | search | past | his mum | the whole town | for him = he | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent town=Location for he=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he stayed out all night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 stayed | advmod |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay out | past | he | night | out property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, he got back for dinner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 dinner | case |
| 7 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | he | for dinner | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for dinner=Source |
Option 4
Yeah, he got home just in time for tea and was told off gently by his mum
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 time | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 tea | case |
| 10 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 told | aux:pass |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 got | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 told | compound:prt |
| 15 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 13 told | advmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 mum | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mum | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | time | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | tell off speech: assert | past · passive | his mum | gently property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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