Test 4 · ★ · Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 141: Ole explai…

Did the glove think it was a big deal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: glove · What happens: think, be · To what, where: big deal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 930 «Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 141: Ole explains the six glasses, the tree in the dust-cart, and Death's omnibus» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 glove	det
3	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 deal	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 deal	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 deal	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deal	amod
9	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	the glove						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	glove	a big deal					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

Facts, it said it had no other reason to live

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Facts	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 reason	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 reason	amod
9	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 live	mark
11	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 reason	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it	Facts	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	it	no other reason	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
3	live	to-infinitive		no other reason not said here	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Facts, it said it had nothing else to live for and that the hand squeezed it out of pure love and sadness forever

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Facts	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 had	obj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 nothing	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 live	mark
10	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nothing	acl
11	for	for	ADP	_	10 live	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 squeezed	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 squeezed	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hand	det
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 squeezed	nsubj
16	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 squeezed	obj
18	out	out	ADP	_	21 love	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 love	case
20	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 love	amod
21	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 squeezed	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sadness	cc
23	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 love	conj
24	forever	forever	ADV	_	16 squeezed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it	Facts			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	it	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	live	to-infinitive		nothing not said here			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	squeeze	past	the hand	it	pure love and sadness	forever property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme out love=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Facts, it said it had nothing else to live for

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Facts	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Facts	acl:relcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 had	obj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 nothing	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 live	mark
10	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nothing	acl
11	for	for	ADP	_	10 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it	it	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	have	past	Facts	nothing	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	live	to-infinitive	Facts not said here	nothing not said here	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, it said it was a pressure of the hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pressure	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pressure	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pressure	det
8	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hand	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hand	det
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pressure	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a pressure				of the hand	tree rules

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