Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a…

No way, were the pieces of furniture really singing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pieces · What happens: sing · To what, where: way

This is test 3 · ★ 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 singing	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 singing	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pieces	det
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 singing	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 furniture	case
8	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 singing	obl
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 singing	advmod
10	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 singing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	the pieces	no way				of furniture	vn sound_emission-43.2 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Yep, they sang a happy song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 song	det
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 song	amod
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	they	a happy song					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 2

Nope, they only danced slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 danced	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 danced	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 danced	advmod
5	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 danced	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past	they					slowly property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yep, they sang A thousand thanks and then bowed to the crowd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thousand	det
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 thanks	nummod
7	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bowed	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 bowed	advmod
10	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sang	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 crowd	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 crowd	det
13	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	they	thousand thanks					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thanks=Theme
2	bow	past	they not said here				then	to the crowd	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to crowd=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, they sang A thousand thanks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thousand	det
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 thanks	nummod
7	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	they	thousand thanks					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thanks=Theme

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