Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, A Story from the Sand-Hills, part 2: a y…

Was the beggar, like, a sad case, or just chilling with a melon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sad case · What happens: be, chill · To what, where: beggar

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 961 «Andersen's Tales, A Story from the Sand-Hills, part 2: a young Spanish couple sails toward Russia, but calm weather and then a storm blow their ship north» 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 beggar	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beggar	det
3	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 case	punct
5	like	like	INTJ	_	9 case	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 case	det
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 case	amod
9	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beggar	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 chilling	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 chilling	cc
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 chilling	advmod
13	chilling	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 case	acl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 melon	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 melon	det
16	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chilling	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 beggar	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the beggar					tree rules
2	chill	gerund	a sad case not said here					with a melon	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with melon=Instrument

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

chilling with a juicy melon, living it up, not a care at all in the world

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 melon	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 melon	det
4	juicy	juicy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 melon	amod
5	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chilling	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 living	punct
7	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 chilling	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 living	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 living	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 care	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 care	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 care	det
13	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chilling	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 care	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 world	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chilling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	gerund		a care at all		the world		with a juicy melon	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with melon=Instrument
2	live up	gerund		melon					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location

Option 2

chilling with a juicy melon in the sun, living it up, not a care at all

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 melon	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 melon	det
4	juicy	juicy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 melon	amod
5	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chilling	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 melon	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 living	punct
10	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 chilling	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 living	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 living	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 care	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 care	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 care	det
16	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chilling	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 care	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	gerund		a care at all				with a juicy melon in the sun	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with melon=Instrument
2	live up	gerund		sun					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location

Option 3

sitting in the sun, begging for coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 sun	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sitting	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 begging	punct
6	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 sitting	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 coins	case
8	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 begging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund				the sun			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location
2	beg speech: request	gerund						for coins	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for coin=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

chilling with a juicy melon, living it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 melon	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 melon	det
4	juicy	juicy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 melon	amod
5	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chilling	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 living	punct
7	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 chilling	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 living	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	gerund						with a juicy melon	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with melon=Instrument
2	live	gerund		melon					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location

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