Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful colla…

Mate, why did the scissors chop the collar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scissors · What happens: chop · To what, where: collar

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chop	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 chop	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chop	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 scissors	det
6	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chop	nsubj
7	chop	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 collar	det
9	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chop	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	past · do-support	the scissors	the collar					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collar=Patient

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

She was sharpened too long and so cut the collar in rage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sharpened	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sharpened	aux:pass
3	sharpened	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 sharpened	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cut	cc
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 cut	advmod
8	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sharpened	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 collar	det
10	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cut	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 rage	case
12	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sharpen	past · passive		She				long property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	cut	infinitive		the collar		rage			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset collar=Product

Option 2

She got very angry at his bold proposal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 angry	advmod
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 proposal	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 proposal	nmod:poss
7	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 proposal	amod
8	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	She					angry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	propose		his = he						nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

She got quite upset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 upset	advmod
4	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	She					upset property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She got well angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 got	advmod
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	She					angry, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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