Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Grave-Stone, part 131: the old g…

Did the old couple have heaps of money in the end?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old couple · What happens: have · To what, where: heaps, end

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 couple	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 couple	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 couple	amod
4	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 money	case
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heaps	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the old couple	heaps of money			in the end		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=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

Yes, they left a huge fortune to the poor of the whole town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fortune	det
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fortune	amod
7	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 poor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 poor	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 left	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 town	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 town	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 town	amod
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 poor	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	they	a huge fortune	the poor				vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme to poor=Recipient

Option 2

Yes, they had quite a lot indeed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	7 lot	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	quite lot				indeed property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, way less than people thought

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	3 way	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 less	obl:unmarked
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 thought	mark
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 less	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	people						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, there was a big hidden treasure in the cellar that nobody found

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 treasure	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 treasure	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 treasure	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 treasure	amod
7	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 treasure	amod
8	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 cellar	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cellar	det
11	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 treasure	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 found	obj
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cellar	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a big hidden treasure		the cellar			tree rules
2	find	past	nobody	the cellar					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic

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