Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Metal Pig: the boy sneaks out to the…

bruv, why'd he bang on the door with a rock?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: bang · To what, where: door

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 899 «Andersen's Tales, The Metal Pig: the boy sneaks out to the Metal Pig, Bellissima is taken by police, and the boy starts drawing» 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bang	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 bang	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bang	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bang	nsubj
6	bang	bang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bang	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 rock	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rock	det
12	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bang	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bang	would	he			the door		with a rock; bruv vocative	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rock=Theme

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 door was too heavy to open

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 open	mark
7	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heavy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the door					heavy property	tree rules
2	open	to-infinitive	the door not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the knocker was too high to reach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knocker	det
2	knocker	knocker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 high	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 high	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 high	advmod
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 reach	mark
7	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 high	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the knocker					high property	tree rules
2	reach	to-infinitive	the knocker not said here						vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

it was too heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heavy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 heavy	advmod
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					heavy property	tree rules

Option 4

he had no key for the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 key	det
4	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 key	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	no key				for the door	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Patient

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