Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Metal Pig, part 109: the boy v…

Did the old bloke just leave him in the church?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, leave · To what, where: old bloke, him, church

This is test 8 · ★ 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bloke	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bloke	amod
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 leave	advmod
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bloke	parataxis
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 leave	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 church	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 church	det
10	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the old bloke					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloke=Eventuality
2	leave	infinitive		him = he		the church			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in church=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

Yeah, he left him in the pew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pew	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pew	det
8	pew	pew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	he	him = he		the pew			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in pew=Location

Option 2

Nah, he sent him to the police

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 police	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 police	det
8	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	he	him = he		the police			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to police=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he took him back to his place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 place	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 place	nmod:poss
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take back	past	he	him = he		his place			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to place=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he left him there alone in the church and walked off home without a word

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 left	advmod
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 left	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 church	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 church	det
10	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 walked	cc
12	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 walked	compound:prt
14	home	home	ADV	_	12 walked	advmod
15	without	without	ADP	_	17 word	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 word	det
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	he	him = he		the church; there		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in church=Location
2	walk off	past	he not said here					without a word; home property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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