Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man an…

Who was the tin soldier going on about being lonely?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tin soldier · What happens: be, go on · To what, where: tin soldier

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 soldier	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 soldier	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soldier	det
4	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soldier	compound
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 soldier	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 going	compound:prt
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 lonely	case
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 lonely	cop
10	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 going	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 soldier	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the tin soldier		tree rules
2	go on	gerund	the tin soldier not said here			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	gerund			lonely property	tree rules

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

The old woman upstairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	3 woman	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The old man in the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The old man in the house, who kept a lot of old toys in his drawer

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kept	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lot	det
11	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 toys	case
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 toys	amod
14	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lot	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 drawer	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 drawer	nmod:poss
17	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the old man in the house	a lot of old toys		man's drawer			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lot=Theme in drawer=Location

Option 4

The old man who lived alone in the house on the corner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 man	acl:relcl
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 lived	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 corner	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 corner	det
12	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the old man			the house		on the corner; alone property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

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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