Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Metal Pig: the boy sneaks out to the…

so the painter just gave him loads of pictures?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: painter · What happens: give · To what, where: loads, him

This is test 6 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 painter	det
3	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gave	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 pictures	case
9	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 loads	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the painter	loads of pictures	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient load=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

nah, he just gave him a pile of coins and told him to go home

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pile	det
8	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 coins	case
10	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pile	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	xcomp
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	a pile of coins	him = he		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pile=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	he 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	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, a whole stack, the pig was in them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 stack	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stack	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stack	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stack	amod
5	stack	stack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pig	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pig	det
8	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stack	conj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 them	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pig	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						in stack	tree rules

Option 3

yeah, a few, the pig was there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 few	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 few	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 few	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 there	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pig	det
7	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 there	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 there	cop
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 few	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, a whole stack of them, and the pig was in every single one

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 stack	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stack	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stack	amod
5	stack	stack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stack	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 one	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pig	det
11	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 one	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 one	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 one	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 one	det
15	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	amod
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stack	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the pig					in every single one	tree rules

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