Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talk…

did a shooting star fall on Holberg, the plays guy?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shooting star · What happens: fall · To what, where: Holberg

This is test 8 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 star	aux
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 star	det
3	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 star	compound
4	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fall	nsubj
5	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 Holberg	case
7	Holberg	Holberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fall	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 guy	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 guy	det
10	plays	play	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 guy	compound
11	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Holberg	appos
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	a shooting star			Holberg			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on holberg=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

yeah, on his tomb, for his jokes, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 tomb	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tomb	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 tomb	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tomb	nmod:poss
5	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 jokes	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 jokes	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 jokes	nmod:poss
9	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tomb	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cap	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 cap	det
12	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tomb	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joke		his = he						nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, on his grave, for his charming plays, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 grave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grave	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 grave	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grave	nmod:poss
5	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 plays	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 plays	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 charming	nmod:poss
9	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plays	nsubj
10	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grave	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cap	punct
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 cap	det
13	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grave	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	his charming						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, it fell on a barn in the north, for his dull letters, no cap, honestly

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 barn	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 barn	det
7	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 north	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 north	det
10	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 letters	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 letters	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 letters	nmod:poss
14	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 letters	amod
15	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cap	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 cap	det
18	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 letters	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 honestly	punct
20	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	it			a barn		in the north; for his dull letters and no cap; honestly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on barn=Location
2	letter		his = he						nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

yeah, right on his grave at Soro, for his charming plays, no cap at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 grave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grave	punct
3	right	right	ADV	_	6 grave	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 grave	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 grave	nmod:poss
6	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 Soro	case
8	Soro	Soro	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grave	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 plays	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 plays	mark
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 charming	nmod:poss
12	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 plays	nsubj
13	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grave	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cap	punct
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 cap	det
16	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 plays	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 plays	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	Soro's charming	no cap		all			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme

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