Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare…
Did the little kid really play the lion's back legs for a whole guilder?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, play · To what, where: little kid, back legs
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 932 «Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare, and a legacy» 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kid | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kid | amod |
| 4 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 play | advmod |
| 6 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lion | det |
| 8 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 legs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 lion | case |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 legs | compound |
| 11 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 play | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 guilder | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 guilder | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 guilder | amod |
| 15 | guilder | guilder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 play | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the little kid | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | play | present | the lion's back legs | for a whole guilder | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent leg=Theme for guilder=Eventuality |
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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, the back legs paid a full guilder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 paid | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 paid | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 legs | det |
| 4 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 legs | compound |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 paid | nsubj |
| 6 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 guilder | det |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 guilder | amod |
| 9 | guilder | guilder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 paid | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | the back legs | a full guilder | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guilder=Asset |
Option 2
yeah, a dime
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 dime | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dime | det |
| 4 | dime | dime | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
nah, the front legs got it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 legs | det |
| 4 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 legs | amod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the front legs | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 4
yeah, the hind legs got a guilder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 legs | det |
| 4 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 legs | amod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 guilder | det |
| 8 | guilder | guilder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the hind legs | a guilder | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guilder=Stimulus |
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