Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a…

Bruh, why did Mr. de Boots knock stuff over?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mr. Boots · What happens: knock over · To what, where: stuff

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	8 knock	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 knock	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Boots	aux
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Boots	compound
6	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Mr.	flat
7	Boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 knock	nsubj
8	knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knock	obj
10	over	over	ADV	_	8 knock	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 knock	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock over	present	Mr. Boots	stuff				over property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient

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

He got angry when the clerks argued

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 argued	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clerks	det
6	clerks	clerk	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 argued	nsubj
7	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He					angry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	argue speech: disagree	past	the clerks						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He heard a loud noise from outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 noise	det
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 noise	amod
5	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 outside	case
7	outside	outside	ADV	_	2 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	He	a loud noise					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent noise=Topic from outside=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He kicked up when he heard the Waistcoat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kicked	nsubj
2	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 kicked	compound:prt
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 heard	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kicked	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Waistcoat	det
8	Waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick up	past	He						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	hear	past	he	the Waistcoat					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer waistcoat=Stimulus

Option 4

He got bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He					bored property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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