Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bachelor's Nightcap: old Anthony die…
Dude, did Anthony really die alone in bed?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Anthony · What happens: die
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 918 «Andersen's Tales, The Bachelor's Nightcap: old Anthony dies alone, and his tears are found in a nightcap» 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 die | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dude | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 die | aux |
| 4 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 die | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 die | advmod |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 die | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 die | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 die | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past · do-support | Anthony | in bed; Dude vocative; alone property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in bed=Attribute |
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
Yeah, nobody came for weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 came | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 weeks | case |
| 6 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | nobody | week | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, nobody came for two days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 came | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | nobody | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, his wife came at dusk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 came | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 dusk | case |
| 7 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | his wife | dusk | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Nope, the mayor came in the morning and found him already cold in bed
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 came | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mayor | det |
| 4 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 morning | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 morning | det |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | obj |
| 12 | already | already | ADV | _ | 13 cold | advmod |
| 13 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 found | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cold | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the mayor | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | the mayor not said here | mayor | cold property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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