Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful colla…

Dead funny, but why'd he turn into paper, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: turn · To what, where: paper

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 976 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful collar loses every bride and ends as paper» 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 funny	amod
2	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 turn	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 turn	cc
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 turn	advmod
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 turn	aux
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 turn	nsubj
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 funny	conj
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 paper	case
10	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	8 turn	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 funny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	he			paper			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into paper=Trajectory

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

Cos he bragged a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bragged	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bragged	nsubj
3	bragged	brag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lot	det
5	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bragged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brag speech: other	past	Cos	a lot					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cos he boasted lies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boasted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 boasted	nsubj
3	boasted	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 boasted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boast speech: other	past	Cos	lies					tree rules

Option 3

Cos he told tall tales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tales	amod
5	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Cos	tall tales					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient

Option 4

Cos he was old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 old	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 old	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					old property	tree rules

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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