Test 5 · ★ · Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 141: Ole explai…

The potsherds were roasting the tree, huh?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: potsherds · What happens: roast · To what, where: tree

This is test 5 · ★ 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 potsherds	det
2	potsherds	potsherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roasting	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 roasting	aux
4	roasting	roast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roasting	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 huh	punct
8	huh	huh	INTJ	_	4 roasting	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 roasting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	past · progressive	the potsherds	the tree					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

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

Yep, they said it was stupid and a green stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stupid	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stupid	cop
7	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stick	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stick	det
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stick	amod
11	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stupid	conj

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

Option 2

Yeah, they said it was foolish and too green

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	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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 foolish	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 foolish	cop
7	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 green	cc
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 green	advmod
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 foolish	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it	foolish property	tree rules
3	be				tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, they said it was a fine tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tree	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tree	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tree	amod
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

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

Option 4

Yep, they said it was stupid and a green stick, and they laughed at it while the fire roared in the old stove all night long

The tree, 26 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stupid	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stupid	cop
7	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stick	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stick	det
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stick	amod
11	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stupid	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laughed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 laughed	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laughed	nsubj
15	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laughed	obl
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 roared	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fire	det
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 roared	nsubj
21	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 laughed	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 stove	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stove	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stove	amod
25	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 roared	obl
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 night	det
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 roared	obl:unmarked
28	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 roared	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it			stupid property	tree rules
3	laugh	past	they	stick			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	roar	past	the fire	the old stove	night	long property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stove=Location

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