Test 9 · ★ · Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 141: Ole explai…

Did the saint pick the best sin ever?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: saint · What happens: pick · To what, where: best sin

This is test 9 · ★ 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 pick	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 saint	det
3	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pick	nsubj
4	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sin	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 sin	amod
7	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pick	obj
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 pick	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past · do-support	the saint	the best sin			ever		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=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

Nah, he picked envy, and it led to the others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 picked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 picked	nsubj
4	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 led	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 led	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 led	nsubj
9	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 others	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 others	det
12	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 led	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past	he	envy					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent envy=Patient
2	lead	past	envy					to the others	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to other=Patient

Option 2

Nah, he picked pride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 picked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 picked	nsubj
4	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past	he	pride					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he picked drunkenness, and it led to the rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 picked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 picked	nsubj
4	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	drunkenness	drunkenness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 led	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 led	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 led	nsubj
9	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 rest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rest	det
12	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 led	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past	he	drunkenness					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drunkenness=Patient
2	lead	past	drunkenness					to the rest	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to rest=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, he picked greed, and it led to all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 picked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 picked	nsubj
4	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	greed	greed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 led	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 led	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 led	nsubj
9	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 led	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past	he	greed					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greed=Patient
2	lead	past	greed					to all	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to all=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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