Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talk…
what even is a beadle, like is it a teacher?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: beadle
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 beadle | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beadle | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 beadle | det |
| 5 | beadle | beadle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 what | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 teacher | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 it | cop |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 teacher | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 teacher | det |
| 11 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 what | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a beadle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | like beadle | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
nah, a parish officer who kept order, kinda old-school
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 officer | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 officer | det |
| 4 | parish | parish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 officer | compound |
| 5 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 kept | nsubj |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 officer | acl:relcl |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 school | punct |
| 10 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 13 school | advmod |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 school | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 old | punct |
| 13 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 officer | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | a parish officer and old school | order | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
Option 2
nah, a parish officer who kept order in the village and the church, kinda old-school
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 officer | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 officer | det |
| 4 | parish | parish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 officer | compound |
| 5 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 kept | nsubj |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 officer | acl:relcl |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 village | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 village | det |
| 11 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 church | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 church | det |
| 14 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 village | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 school | punct |
| 16 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 19 school | advmod |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 school | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 old | punct |
| 19 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 village | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | a parish officer | order | the village and the church and old school | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent order=Theme in village=Location |
Option 3
nah, a church helper who kept things tidy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 helper | det |
| 4 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 helper | compound |
| 5 | helper | helper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 kept | nsubj |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kept | obj |
| 9 | tidy | tidy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kept | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | a church helper | things | tidy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
Option 4
yeah, sorta, a teacher who was also a cop and a parish guy, super old-school
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 sorta | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sorta | punct |
| 3 | sorta | sorta | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 teacher | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 teacher | det |
| 6 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sorta | appos |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 cop | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cop | cop |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 cop | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cop | det |
| 11 | cop | cop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sorta | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 guy | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 guy | det |
| 14 | parish | parish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 guy | compound |
| 15 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cop | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 school | punct |
| 17 | super | super | ADV | _ | 20 school | advmod |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 school | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 old | punct |
| 20 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cop | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sorta | a cop and a parish guy and old school | tree rules |
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