Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death s…

why did the tower-keeper go up the church tower?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tower keeper · What happens: go up · To what, where: church tower

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 928 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death shows Hjalmar how he sorts the riders by their mark-books» 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	7 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 keeper	det
4	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeper	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 tower	punct
6	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 go	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tower	det
10	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tower	compound
11	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past · do-support	the tower keeper	the church tower					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

to be alone with his bells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 alone	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 alone	cop
3	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 bells	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bells	nmod:poss
6	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 alone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						with his bells; alone property	tree rules

Option 2

to be a hermit, far away from people and the noisy square below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	4 hermit	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 hermit	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hermit	det
4	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 people	punct
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	9 people	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hermit	appos
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 square	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 square	det
12	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 square	amod
13	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 people	conj
14	below	below	ADV	_	13 square	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	to-infinitive		a hermit					tree rules

Option 3

to be a hermit and live high above the town, away from all the people

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	4 hermit	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 hermit	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hermit	det
4	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 live	cc
6	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hermit	conj
7	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 live	advmod
8	above	above	ADP	_	10 town	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 live	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 away	punct
12	away	away	ADV	_	6 live	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	16 people	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 people	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 people	det
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	to-infinitive		a hermit					tree rules
2	live	present				the town		away, high property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above town=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to be a hermit, away from people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	4 hermit	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 hermit	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hermit	det
4	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 away	punct
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 hermit	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	to-infinitive		a hermit				away property	tree rules

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