Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Metal Pig: the boy sneaks out to the…

how many goes did he need to draw the pig right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many, he · What happens: go, need, draw · To what, where: pig

This is test 5 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 need	nsubj
6	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 goes	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 draw	mark
8	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 need	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pig	det
10	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 draw	obj
11	right	right	ADV	_	8 draw	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	present	many			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	need	past · do-support	he			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	draw not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the pig	right property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=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

two goes, pretty rough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rough	punct
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	5 rough	advmod
5	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 goes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	two					rough property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

three goes, the first was bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 first	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 bad	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bad	cop
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 goes	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	three						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the first					bad property	tree rules

Option 3

four goes, the last one was ok

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ok	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ok	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ok	cop
8	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 goes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	four						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the last one					ok property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

three goes, the third one was sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sick	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sick	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sick	cop
8	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 goes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	three						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the third one					sick property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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