Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful colla…
Proper dodgy, but what did the collar claim he owned?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, own · To what, where: collar claim
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Proper | properly | ADV | _ | 2 dodgy | advmod |
| 2 | dodgy | dodgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 did | cc |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dodgy | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 claim | det |
| 8 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 claim | compound |
| 9 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 owned | nsubj |
| 11 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 claim | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 dodgy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the collar claim | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | own | past | he | the collar claim not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot claim=Theme |
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 · ✓ the right answer
A boot-jack and a hair-brush
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 jack | det |
| 2 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jack | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 boot | punct |
| 4 | jack | jack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brush | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 brush | det |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brush | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 hair | punct |
| 9 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jack | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A boot-jack, a hair-brush, and a fine silver locket from the hall
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 jack | det |
| 2 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jack | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 boot | punct |
| 4 | jack | jack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brush | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 brush | det |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brush | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 hair | punct |
| 9 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jack | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 locket | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 locket | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 locket | det |
| 13 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 locket | amod |
| 14 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 locket | compound |
| 15 | locket | locket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jack | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 hall | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hall | det |
| 18 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 locket | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A boot-jack and a comb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 jack | det |
| 2 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jack | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 boot | punct |
| 4 | jack | jack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 comb | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 comb | det |
| 7 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jack | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A boot-jack, a hair-brush, and a gold watch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 jack | det |
| 2 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jack | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 boot | punct |
| 4 | jack | jack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brush | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 brush | det |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brush | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 hair | punct |
| 9 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jack | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 watch | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 watch | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 watch | det |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watch | compound |
| 14 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jack | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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