Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Marie Grubbe, part 160: a sick, wanderin…
what did the captain do, lowkey scold him?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: captain · What happens: do, lowkey, scold · To what, where: captain
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 949 «Andersen's Tales, Marie Grubbe, part 160: a sick, wandering Marie is lifted onto a ship» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 captain | det |
| 4 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lowkey | punct |
| 7 | lowkey | lowkey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 8 | scold | scold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lowkey | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 scold | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · do-support | the captain | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | lowkey | infinitive | the captain not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | scold | infinitive | the captain not said here | captain | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 · ✓ the right answer
gave him a telling-off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 gave | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 off | det |
| 4 | telling | telling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 off | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 telling | punct |
| 6 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | a telling off | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient off=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
scolded him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 scolded | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scold | past | him = he | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 3
gave him a stern look
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 gave | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 look | det |
| 4 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 look | amod |
| 5 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | a stern look | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient look=Theme |
Option 4
sent him to his cabin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 sent | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 cabin | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cabin | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | him = he | his cabin | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to cabin=Destination |
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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