Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man an…

What did the old thoughts do, according to the boy?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old thoughts · What happens: do, accord

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 921 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man and a little boy become friends across the street» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thoughts	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thoughts	amod
5	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 boy	punct
8	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 boy	case
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 according	fixed
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the old thoughts						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

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

Came back round at night, like guests, to pay him visits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Came	advmod
3	round	round	ADV	_	1 Came	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Came	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 guests	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 guests	case
8	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pay	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 pay	mark
11	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Came	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pay	obj
13	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past					night	like guests; round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pay	to-infinitive			him = he				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient visit=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Came back round to visit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Came	advmod
3	round	round	ADV	_	1 Came	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 visit	mark
5	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Came	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past						round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	visit	to-infinitive							vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Came back to haunt him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Came	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 haunt	mark
4	haunt	haunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Came	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 haunt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	haunt	to-infinitive		him = he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 4

Kept coming back round to visit him again and again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Kept	xcomp
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 coming	advmod
4	round	round	ADV	_	2 coming	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 visit	mark
6	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 coming	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 visit	obj
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 visit	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 again	cc
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 again	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	participle				tree rules
2	come back	gerund			round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	visit	to-infinitive	him = he	again		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

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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