Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 170:…

lol, which fancy guy stood on his hind legs?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: fancy guy · What happens: guy, stand · To what, where: hind legs

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 959 «Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 170: the old willow, the flute and the proud party» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 stood	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 guy	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 guy	nsubj
4	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guy	compound
5	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	nsubj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 legs	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 legs	nmod:poss
9	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 legs	amod
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stood	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guy								tree rules
2	stand	past	fancy guy			guy's hind legs			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location

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 man who neighs like an Arabian horse and boasts of his stables

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 neighs	nsubj
4	neighs	neigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 man	acl:relcl
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 horse	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horse	det
7	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horse	amod
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 neighs	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 boasts	cc
10	boasts	boast	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 horse	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 stables	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 stables	nmod:poss
13	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 boasts	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	neigh	present	the man					like a Arabian horse and boasts of man's stables	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	boast		man's stables						nom boast «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the man who neighs like an Arabian horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 neighs	nsubj
4	neighs	neigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 man	acl:relcl
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 horse	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horse	det
7	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horse	amod
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 neighs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	neigh	present	the man					like a Arabian horse	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

the man who neighs like an Arabian horse at parties

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 neighs	nsubj
4	neighs	neigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 man	acl:relcl
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 horse	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horse	det
7	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horse	amod
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 neighs	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 parties	case
10	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 neighs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	neigh	present	the man					like a Arabian horse; at parties	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at party=Stimulus

Option 4

the one with the proud horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 horse	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
5	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horse	amod
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	nmod

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

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