Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie, part 138: Hjalmar sai…

did Ole take money from the old people, like ever?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: take · To what, where: money

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 927 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie, part 138: Hjalmar sails with Ole, rescues a tired stork, and rides to a mouse wedding» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
2	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 take	amod
3	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 people	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ever	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 ever	case
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 take	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support		money				from the old people	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent money=Theme from people=Initial_Location

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 never takes gold from anyone at all

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 takes	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 takes	advmod
3	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 anyone	case
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 takes	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 takes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take	present	he	gold		anyone		at all	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent gold=Theme from anyone=Source at all=Asset

Option 2

he often takes coins

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 takes	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 takes	advmod
3	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 takes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	he	coins				often property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he takes nothing from old people ever

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 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 takes	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 people	case
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 takes	obl
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 takes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	he	nothing			ever	from old people	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme from people=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he never takes gold

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 takes	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 takes	advmod
3	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take	present	he	gold					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

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