Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Metal Pig, part 109: the boy v…

Were the sailors bladdered when they went past him?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sailors · What happens: be, go

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bladdered	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sailors	det
3	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bladdered	nsubj
4	bladdered	bladder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 went	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bladdered	ccomp
8	past	past	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bladdered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sailors					bladder property	tree rules
2	go	past	sailors = sailor					past him = he	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme past he=Initial_Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they'd been on a right bender

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 bender	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bender	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bender	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 bender	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 bender	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bender	det
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bender	amod
9	bender	bender	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	they			a right bender			tree rules

Option 2

Nah, they just walked straight past

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 walked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walked	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 walked	advmod
5	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 past	advmod
7	past	past	ADV	_	5 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	they					past property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, they were perfectly sober and walking in a neat line towards the harbour and the ships

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sober	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sober	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sober	cop
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	6 sober	advmod
6	sober	sober	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 walking	cc
8	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sober	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 line	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 line	det
11	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 line	amod
12	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walking	obl
13	towards	towards	ADP	_	15 harbour	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 harbour	det
15	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walking	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ships	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ships	det
18	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 harbour	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					perfectly, sober property	tree rules
2	walk	gerund	they not said here			a neat line		towards the harbour and the ships	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards harbour=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they'd been on a right bender all week and were singing loudly in the street

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 bender	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bender	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bender	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 bender	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 bender	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bender	det
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bender	amod
9	bender	bender	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 week	det
11	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bender	nmod:unmarked
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 singing	cc
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 singing	aux
14	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 bender	conj
15	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	14 singing	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 street	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 street	det
18	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	they			a right bender	week		tree rules
2	sing speech: express	past · progressive	they not said here			the street		loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location

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