Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man an…

Bruv, did the boy really give away one of his tin soldiers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: do, give away · To what, where: boy, one

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 give	advmod
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	away	away	ADV	_	9 one	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 give	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 soldiers	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 soldiers	nmod:poss
12	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 soldiers	compound
13	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bruv	the boy					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality
2	give away	present	Bruv not said here	one of Bruv's tin soldiers					vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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, he gave one of his tin soldiers to the old man next door

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 gave	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 soldiers	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 soldiers	nmod:poss
8	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 soldiers	compound
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 man	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl
14	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 door	amod
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	one of his tin soldiers				to the old man	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient door=Theme

Option 2

Nah, he sold it to a man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	nsubj
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	he	it	a man				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to man=Recipient

Option 3

Yeah, he threw one away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 threw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 threw	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 threw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	past	he	one				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he gave one to the old man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 gave	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 man	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	one	the old man				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Theme to man=Recipient

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