Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sw…

Did the Chinaman nod to say yes, or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: do, say · To what, where: Chinaman nod · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	4 nod	det
3	Chinaman	Chinaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 nod	compound
4	nod	nod	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nod	acl
7	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 say	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Did	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Chinaman nod					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nod=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		the Chinaman nod not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

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

yeah, he nodded his head real slow twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nodded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nodded	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nodded	nsubj
4	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nodded	obj
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 slow	amod
8	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nodded	xcomp
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 nodded	advmod

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

Option 2

yeah, he shook his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shook	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shook	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shook	nsubj
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	he	his head					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Option 3

yeah, he nodded at them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nodded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nodded	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nodded	nsubj
4	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nodded	obl

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he nodded his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nodded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nodded	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nodded	nsubj
4	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nodded	obj

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

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