Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's tales, Psyche: the sculptor is scorned, feasts…

Was his mate Angelo a total wet blanket?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: mate

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 953 «Andersen's tales, Psyche: the sculptor is scorned, feasts with artists, buries his marble statue and turns to faith» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mate	cop
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mate	nmod:poss
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blanket	nsubj
4	Angelo	Angelo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	appos
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 blanket	det
6	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blanket	amod
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blanket	amod
8	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 blanket	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		his mate					tree rules

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

Nah, he hauled him to the party and made him dance all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hauled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hauled	nsubj
4	hauled	haul	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hauled	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 party	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 party	det
8	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hauled	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 made	cc
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hauled	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	obj
12	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 made	xcomp
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dance	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	haul	past	he	him = he	the party		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to party=Destination
2	make	past	he not said here	him = he			tree rules
3	dance	infinitive	him = he not said here			night	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he was a bit of a drag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bit	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bit	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 drag	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 drag	det
9	drag	drag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a bit				of a drag	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, he dragged him along fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 dragged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dragged	nsubj
4	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dragged	obj
6	along	along	ADV	_	4 dragged	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 dragged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past	he	him = he				along, fast property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he hauled him to the party

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hauled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hauled	nsubj
4	hauled	haul	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hauled	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 party	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 party	det
8	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hauled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haul	past	he	him = he		the party			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to party=Destination

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