Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a…

Dude, was the Waistcoat lowkey bragging the whole time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, Waistcoat lowkey · What happens: be, brag · To what, where: Waistcoat lowkey

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 915 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a silly pretend play, then the strange street of pepper clerks» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lowkey	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lowkey	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lowkey	det
5	Waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lowkey	compound
6	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	bragging	brag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 lowkey	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bragging	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 lowkey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dude	the Waistcoat lowkey					tree rules
2	brag speech: other	gerund	the Waistcoat lowkey not said here				time		vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Nah, he just stayed quiet the whole time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stayed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 stayed	advmod
5	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stayed	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stayed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he				time	quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he kept saying he had no spot on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	ccomp
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 spot	det
9	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	he not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	he	no spot	on him = he	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, he kept saying he had no spot on him and his coat was perfect

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 perfect	csubj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	ccomp
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 spot	det
9	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 coat	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 coat	nmod:poss
14	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 him	conj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 perfect	cop
16	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	he	no spot	on him = he	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient
4	is	past	saying		perfect property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he kept saying he had no spot on him and bragged about it to everyone in the booth

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	ccomp
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 spot	det
9	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bragged	cc
13	bragged	brag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bragged	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 everyone	case
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 bragged	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 booth	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 booth	det
20	booth	booth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 everyone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	he not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	he	no spot		on him = he	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient
4	brag speech: other	past	he not said here		everyone	about spot	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic PP.recipient»: agent=Agent about it=Topic to everyone=Recipient

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