Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Metal Pig: the boy sneaks out to the…

was the boy's glovemaking going well after all that?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: be, glovemak, go

This is test 9 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 boy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	's	's	PART	_	3 boy	case
5	glovemaking	glovemak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 boy	acl
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 glovemaking	xcomp
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 going	advmod
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 going	obl
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 all	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 boy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past			's the boy	tree rules
2	glovemak	gerund	the boy not said here			tree rules
3	go	gerund	the boy not said here	after all	well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

nope, he made gloves all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	he	gloves			day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Product

Option 2

nope, it was slow, because he kept drawing pictures all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 slow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slow	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slow	cop
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kept	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 kept	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slow	conj
10	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 pictures	amod
11	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 kept	obj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			slow property	tree rules
2	keep	past	he	drawing pictures	day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme
3	draw	gerund					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

yeah, he was making gloves fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 making	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 making	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 making	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 making	aux
5	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 making	obj
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 making	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · progressive	he	gloves				fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nope, it was slow, he kept drawing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 slow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slow	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slow	cop
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kept	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kept	nsubj
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slow	conj
9	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	it	slow property	tree rules
2	keep	past	he		tree rules
3	draw	gerund	he not said here		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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