Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw com…

lol the dog kept barking "away away," did he mean it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: keep, bark away, mean · To what, where: it

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 977 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw comes, and the Snow Man longs for the stove» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 away	punct
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 barking	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	5 barking	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mean	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 mean	punct
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mean	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mean	nsubj
13	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mean	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the dog			tree rules
2	bark away	gerund	the dog not said here		away property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mean	past · do-support	dog	it		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he meant come here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 meant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 meant	nsubj
4	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 meant	xcomp
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	he						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come not said to happen	infinitive	he not said here			here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he meant go away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 meant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 meant	nsubj
4	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 meant	xcomp
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	he						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go away not said to happen	infinitive	he not said here					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

nah, he was just playing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 playing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 playing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 playing	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 playing	advmod
6	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · progressive	he						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, he meant go away from the garden wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 meant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 meant	nsubj
4	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 meant	xcomp
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 wall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wall	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wall	compound
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	he						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go away not said to happen	infinitive	he not said here			the garden wall		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from wall=Initial_Location

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