Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mot…

Was the soap-man a proper grump or a merry old geezer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: soap man

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 910 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mother is pecked to death, and her children burn their own nest» 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	5 man	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
3	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 soap	punct
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 grump	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grump	amod
8	grump	grump	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	appos
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 geezer	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 geezer	det
11	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 geezer	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 geezer	amod
13	geezer	geezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grump	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the soap man					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

Grumpy, always stuck at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stuck	punct
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 stuck	advmod
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Grumpy	conj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Merry, always wandering about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Merry	Merry	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wandering	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Merry	punct
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 wandering	advmod
4	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 wandering	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	gerund	Merry					about, always property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Merry, always wandering about the garden and singing to the roses all day long

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Merry	Merry	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wandering	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Merry	punct
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 wandering	advmod
4	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wandering	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 singing	cc
9	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 wandering	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 roses	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 roses	det
12	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 singing	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 singing	obl:unmarked
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 singing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	gerund	Merry					about the garden; always property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about garden=Stimulus
2	sing speech: express	gerund	Merry not said here		the roses		day	long property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to rose=Recipient

Option 4

A proper grump at first, but merry, always wandering about the fields and lanes

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 grump	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grump	amod
3	grump	grump	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 merry	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 grump	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 merry	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 merry	cc
8	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wandering	punct
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 wandering	advmod
11	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 merry	advcl
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 fields	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fields	det
14	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wandering	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lanes	cc
16	lanes	lane	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fields	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	gerund						about the fields and lanes; always property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about field=Stimulus

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