Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldie…

what did the young man reckon about the soldier?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young man · What happens: reckon

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 922 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldier is found again in a new garden» 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	6 reckon	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reckon	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reckon	nsubj
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 soldier	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 soldier	det
9	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reckon	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the young man					about the soldier	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute

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 right answer

"It can scarcely be the same"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 same	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 same	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 same	aux
4	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	7 same	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 same	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 same	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	can	It					same, scarcely property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

I doubt it is the same one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 doubt	nsubj
2	doubt	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 doubt	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doubt	present	I						vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	the same one					tree rules

Option 3

Surely that is not the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Surely	surely	ADV	_	6 same	advmod
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 same	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 same	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 same	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	that					same, surely property	tree rules

Option 4

Goodness, I have never seen anything so dirty, it must be a completely new one

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Goodness	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 seen	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 seen	advmod
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 one	parataxis
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 seen	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 dirty	advmod
9	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 anything	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 one	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 one	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 one	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 one	det
15	completely	completely	ADV	_	16 new	advmod
16	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 one	amod
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	present · perfect · passive		Goodness					tree rules
2	is a	must	Goodness	a new one					tree rules

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