Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man an…

Innit creepy how the trumpeters on the door look, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, trumpeters · What happens: innit, look · To what, where: creepy

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Innit	obj
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 look	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trumpeters	det
5	trumpeters	trumpeter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 look	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trumpeters	nmod
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 creepy	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Innit	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	1 Innit	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit	imperative	you not said here	creepy					tree rules
2	look	infinitive	the trumpeters on the door						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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, they blow trumpets really hard with their cheeks all puffed out at the door

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 blow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blow	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blow	nsubj
4	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blow	obj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 blow	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 cheeks	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cheeks	nmod:poss
10	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blow	obl
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 puffed	advmod
12	puffed	puff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blow	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 puffed	compound:prt
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 door	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 puffed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present	they	trumpets				with trumpets's cheeks; hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent trumpet=Patient
2	puff out	past	they not said here			the door		all property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They blow with their cheeks puffed out

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 blow	nsubj
2	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 cheeks	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cheeks	nmod:poss
5	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 blow	obl
6	puffed	puff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cheeks	acl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 puffed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present	They					with their cheeks	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with cheek=Theme
2	puff out	participle		their cheeks not said here					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 3

They blow with their cheeks puffed out, like they're really going for it

The tree, 14 words

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 blow	nsubj
2	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 cheeks	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cheeks	nmod:poss
5	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 blow	obl
6	puffed	puff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cheeks	acl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 puffed	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 going	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 going	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 going	advmod
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 blow	advcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blow	present	They		with their cheeks	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with cheek=Theme
2	puff out	participle		their cheeks not said here		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	go	present · progressive	cheeks = cheek		for it	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary

Option 4

They look like they're shouting now

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 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 shouting	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shouting	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shouting	aux
6	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 look	advcl
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 shouting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	They						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	shout speech: express	present · progressive	they				now		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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