Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sw…

What did the sweep reckon about his job?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sweep · What happens: reckon, job

This is test 11 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reckon	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sweep	det
4	sweep	sweep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 job	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 job	nmod:poss
8	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the sweep					about sweep's job	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
2	job		sweep						nom job «act intransitive»: 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

he could keep her going with it and make a lot of money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	obj
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 going	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 make	cc
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 keep	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lot	det
11	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 money	case
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	could	he	her = she		tree rules
2	go	gerund	her = she not said here		with it	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary
3	make	infinitive	he not said here	a lot of money		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lot=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he could keep her well with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	obj
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 keep	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	could	he	her = she				with it; well property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he could keep her going with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	obj
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	could	he	her = she					tree rules
2	go	gerund	her = she not said here					with it	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary

Option 4

he could support her with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 support	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 support	aux
3	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 support	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 support	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	support	could	he		her = she			with it	vn help-72.1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary with it=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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