Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talk…

wait, why is Ole so sad about being grease?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Ole	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 Ole	advmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Ole	cop
5	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	advcl
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 sad	advmod
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Ole	conj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 grease	case
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 grease	cop
10	grease	grease	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sad	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	you not said here	ole property	tree rules
3	be		you not said here		tree rules
4	is	gerund		about grease	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

he thinks his fate is nothing special, no lacquer

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 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 fate	nmod:poss
4	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nothing	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 nothing	cop
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 thinks	ccomp
7	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nothing	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lacquer	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 lacquer	det
10	lacquer	lacquer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	he		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	his fate	nothing	tree rules
3	fate		his = he		nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

he thinks he's just plain, no shine

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 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 plain	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plain	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 plain	advmod
6	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thinks	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shine	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 shine	det
9	shine	shine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plain	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	he					plain property	tree rules

Option 3

he's sad cause he feels like the wheels just use him up and nobody cares, no lacquer

The tree, 18 words

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	4 cause	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cause	cop
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cause	amod
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 feels	nsubj
6	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cause	acl:relcl
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 wheels	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wheels	det
9	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feels	obl
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 use	advmod
11	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 feels	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 use	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 use	compound:prt
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cares	cc
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 cares	nsubj
16	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 use	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lacquer	punct
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 lacquer	det
19	lacquer	lacquer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	sad cause and no lacquer		tree rules
2	feel	present	he	sad cause and no lacquer not said here	like the wheels	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Theme
3	use up	present	he not said here	him = he		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	care	present	nobody			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

he thinks his fate is nothing special at all, just plain grease with no lacquer or shine

The tree, 17 words

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 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 fate	nmod:poss
4	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nothing	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 nothing	cop
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 thinks	ccomp
7	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nothing	amod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 special	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grease	punct
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 grease	advmod
12	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grease	amod
13	grease	grease	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nothing	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 lacquer	case
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 lacquer	det
16	lacquer	lacquer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grease	nmod
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 shine	cc
18	shine	shine	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lacquer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	he		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	his fate	nothing	tree rules
3	fate		his = he		nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent

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