Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp: the lamp dreams it…

Why did the watchman keep the lamp, honestly?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: watchman · What happens: keep · To what, where: lamp

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 925 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp: the lamp dreams it will be melted down» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 keep	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 watchman	det
4	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lamp	det
7	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 honestly	punct
9	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	5 keep	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the watchman	the lamp				honestly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=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

He had no children, and the lamp was like his own child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 child	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 child	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lamp	det
8	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 child	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 child	cop
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 child	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 child	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 child	amod
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	no children					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	is	past	the lamp					like his own child	tree rules

Option 2

He had lost his wife and had no family to keep him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 had	cc
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 family	det
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 keep	mark
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	He	his wife	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality
2	have	past	He not said here	no family	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient
3	keep	to-infinitive	He not said here	him = he	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He had no children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	no children					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient

Option 4

He had no wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	no wife					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient

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