Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Metal Pig, part 109: the boy v…

Was the shop with the poodle actually nice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: shop

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shop	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shop	det
3	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nice	csubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 poodle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 poodle	det
6	poodle	poodle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nice	obl
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 nice	advmod
8	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 nice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the shop					tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they fed him and let him stay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fed	nsubj
4	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 let	cc
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 fed	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	feed	past	they		him = he	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	let	infinitive	they not said here	him = he		tree rules
3	stay	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, they threw him out at once and told him to get back to the street

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 threw	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 threw	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 threw	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	xcomp
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 get	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 street	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 street	det
17	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	throw out	past	they	him = he			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme at once=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	past	they not said here		him = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	get back not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here			to the street result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to street=Result

Option 3

Nah, they shut the door fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 shut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shut	nsubj
4	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shut	obj
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 shut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	present	they	the door				fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, they sold him a coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sold	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	nsubj
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coat	det
7	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	they	a coat	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient coat=Theme

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