Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sw…

Did the Chinaman still nod after that?

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

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 974 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep: the china lovers flee the table, and the old Chinaman is broken and riveted» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Chinaman	det
3	Chinaman	Chinaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 nod	advmod
5	nod	nod	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obl
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 nod	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Chinaman				nod after that obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chinaman=Eventuality

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 couldn't nod no more because of the rivet in his neck

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 nod	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nod	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 nod	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 nod	advmod
6	nod	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	no	no	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 nod	obj
9	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	12 rivet	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 because	fixed
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rivet	det
12	rivet	rivet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nod	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 neck	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 neck	nmod:poss
15	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nod	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not nod	could	he	more				because the rivet; in his neck	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Patient in neck=Theme

Option 2

yeah, he kept nodding but only very slowly with a limp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nodding	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 slowly	cc
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 slowly	advmod
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 slowly	advmod
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 nodding	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 limp	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 limp	det
12	limp	limp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nodding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	nod	gerund	he not said here					with a limp	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

yeah, he still nodded once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 nodded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nodded	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nodded	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 nodded	advmod
5	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 nodded	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nod	past	he				still	once property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he couldn't nod no more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 nod	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nod	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 nod	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 nod	advmod
6	nod	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	no	no	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 nod	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not nod	could	he	more					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient

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