Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes…

Why'd the puppet bloke finish his show at eight, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: puppet bloke, bloke · What happens: finish, show · To what, where: show, eight

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 955 «Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes his dolls alive and learns to be content» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 finish	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 finish	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bloke	det
4	puppet	puppet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bloke	amod
5	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 finish	nsubj
6	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 show	nmod:poss
8	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 finish	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 eight	case
10	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 finish	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eight	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	10 eight	case
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 finish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	would	the puppet bloke	bloke's show		eight			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality show=Eventuality
2	show		bloke						nom show «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

Cos little kids gotta get to bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 kids	case
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kids	amod
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	gotta	gotta	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kids	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 bed	case
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	infinitive	little kids not said here					to bed result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cos the lecturer told him to bounce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 lecturer	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lecturer	det
3	lecturer	lecturer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 bounce	mark
7	bounce	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past			lecturer			cos the lecturer	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	bounce not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Cos the hall was booked for a rave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 hall	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hall	det
3	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 booked	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 booked	aux:pass
5	booked	book	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 rave	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rave	det
8	rave	rave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 booked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	book	past · passive						cos the hall; for a rave	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for rave=Beneficiary

Option 4

Cos the lights had gone off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 gone	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lights	det
3	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gone	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 gone	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past · perfect	the lights						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

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