Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a…

Wait, what was the nightcap even for?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: nightcap

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nightcap	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 nightcap	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nightcap	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nightcap	det
6	nightcap	nightcap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 for	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	6 nightcap	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the nightcap					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

Sleeping, and Anthony wore it all the time even during the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wore	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wore	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wore	cc
4	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wore	nsubj
5	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wore	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 time	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wore	obl:unmarked
10	even	even	ADV	_	13 day	advmod
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 day	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	Sleeping	it			day; time		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

For sleeping and for dressing up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	2 sleeping	case
2	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dressing	cc
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 dressing	mark
5	dressing	dress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sleeping	conj
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 dressing	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress up	gerund							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To keep warm, and he wore it at work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wore	advcl
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wore	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wore	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wore	nsubj
7	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wore	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 work	case
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive	he not said here					warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	wear	past	he	it		work			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sleeping, and Anthony wore it all the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wore	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wore	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wore	cc
4	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wore	nsubj
5	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wore	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 time	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wore	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	Sleeping	it			time		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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