Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Grave-Stone, part 131: the old g…

So who kicked the bucket first, the lady or the guy?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: kick · To what, where: bucket

This is test 6 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 kicked	advmod
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 kicked	nsubj
3	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bucket	det
5	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kicked	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 kicked	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lady	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lady	det
9	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kicked	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 guy	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 guy	det
12	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lady	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 kicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past		the bucket				the lady or the guy obl; first property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bucket=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

Her husband Preben, the old man, who died much later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 died	nsubj
3	Preben	Preben	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 husband	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 husband	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 died	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	much	much	ADV	_	12 later	advmod
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 died	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	Her husband and the old man					late property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The man, Preben

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Preben	punct
4	Preben	Preben	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 man	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The lady, Martha, died first, years before her husband

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Martha	punct
4	Martha	Martha	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lady	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lady	punct
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 died	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 years	punct
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 died	obl
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 husband	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 husband	nmod:poss
12	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the lady				before lady's husband; year	first property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The lady, Martha

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Martha	punct
4	Martha	Martha	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lady	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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