Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Grave-Stone, part 131: the old g…

Hold up, how'd the old couple treat the poor kids?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, old couple · What happens: hold up, treat · To what, where: poor kids

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 920 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Grave-Stone, part 131: the old grave-stone is remembered, and a new tale begins with an old house and a leaking dragon gutter» 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	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hold	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 treat	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 treat	advmod
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 treat	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 couple	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 couple	amod
8	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 treat	nsubj
9	treat	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kids	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kids	amod
12	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 treat	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here						vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	treat	would	the old couple		the poor kids				vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient

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

They sheltered them well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sheltered	nsubj
2	sheltered	shelter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sheltered	obj
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 sheltered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shelter	past	They	them = they				well property	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They fed and clothed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	nsubj
2	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 clothed	cc
4	clothed	clothe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fed	conj
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clothed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	They						vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	clothe	past	They not said here	them = they					vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

They gave them bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	They	bread	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient bread=Theme

Option 4

They fed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	nsubj
2	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	They	them = they					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/920-pg27200-part131/t5/