Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Metal Pig, part 109: the boy v…

Did the two women actually have a proper ruck?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two women · What happens: have · To what, where: proper ruck

This is test 6 · ★ 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 women	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 women	nummod
4	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ruck	det
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ruck	amod
9	ruck	ruck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	the two women	a proper ruck				actually property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruck=Patient

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, they just talked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	they						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, they shouted at each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shouted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shouted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shouted	nsubj
4	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 shouted	obl
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	they			each			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, they just shared a laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 shared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shared	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 shared	advmod
5	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 laugh	det
7	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	past	they	a laugh					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they smashed their fire-pots together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 smashed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 smashed	nsubj
4	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pots	nmod:poss
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pots	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 fire	punct
8	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smashed	obj
9	together	together	ADV	_	4 smashed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	past	they	their fire pots				together property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme

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