Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Omnibus of Life, part 2: the deeds o…

lowkey, what did the older brother offer the hangman?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: older brother · What happens: offer · To what, where: hangman

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 931 «Andersen's Tales, The Omnibus of Life, part 2: the deeds of the dead and the aunt who lived for the theatre» 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 offer	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 offer	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 offer	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brother	det
6	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 brother	amod
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 offer	nsubj
8	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hangman	det
10	hangman	hangman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 offer	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 offer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past · do-support	the older brother	the hangman				lowkey vocative	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal hangman=Theme

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

to give up his old knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 give	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 knife	nmod:poss
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 knife	amod
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	to-infinitive		his old knife					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Source

Option 2

his teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

to give up three of his teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 give	compound:prt
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 give	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 teeth	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 teeth	nmod:poss
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 three	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	to-infinitive		three of his teeth					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to give up two of his teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 give	compound:prt
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 teeth	nummod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 teeth	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 teeth	nmod:poss
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	to-infinitive		his two teeth					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Source

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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