Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talk…

so the poets all hate the niece, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poets · What happens: hate · To what, where: niece

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 929 «Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talks about boulders, the wild ride to Amack and falling stars» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 hate	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 poets	det
3	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hate	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 poets	det
5	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 niece	det
7	niece	niece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hate	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hate	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	5 hate	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	the poets	the niece					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer niece=Stimulus

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

nah, she just said mean stuff but kept it kinda nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stuff	amod
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 kept	cc
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kept	obj
11	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	12 nice	advmod
12	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she	mean stuff					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stuff=Topic
2	keep	past	she not said here	stuff				nice property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, they all said mean stuff about her, but she kept it kinda nice and polite in return

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stuff	amod
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stuff	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 kept	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	obj
15	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	16 nice	advmod
16	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kept	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 polite	cc
18	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nice	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 return	case
20	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they	mean stuff				about her = she	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stuff=Topic
2	keep	past	she	stuff		return		nice property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in return=Location

Option 3

nah, they all liked her a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 liked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 liked	nsubj
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 liked	advmod
5	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 liked	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 liked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	they	her = she				a lot obl:unmarked; all property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme

Option 4

yeah, they said mean stuff, kinda rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stuff	amod
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rude	punct
8	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	9 rude	advmod
9	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they	mean stuff					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stuff=Topic

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