Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer: the mo…

Mate, the critics always reckon they know best, don't they?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: critics · What happens: reckon, know, do · To what, where: critics

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 992 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer: the mouse's adventures end in a wedding and a critics' complaint, then storks appear on a roof» 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	6 reckon	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 critics	det
4	critics	critic	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reckon	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 reckon	advmod
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reckon	conj
9	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 know	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reckon	punct
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 reckon	conj
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 they	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	the critics		Mate vocative; always property	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	know	present	critics = critic		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	do	infinitive	the critics not said here	critics = critic		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

No, they are wise before the event

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 wise	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wise	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wise	cop
5	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 event	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 event	det
8	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they				before the event	wise property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they are clever only afterwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 clever	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 clever	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 afterwards	advmod
7	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	5 clever	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					afterwards, clever property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, they only think after the event

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 think	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 think	advmod
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 event	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 event	det
8	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	they				after the event		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, they are clever only afterwards, when everything has already happened and it's too late

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 clever	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 clever	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 afterwards	advmod
7	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	5 clever	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 happened	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 happened	advmod
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 happened	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 happened	aux
12	already	already	ADV	_	13 happened	advmod
13	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 clever	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 late	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 late	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 late	cop
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 late	advmod
18	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clever	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	they	afterwards, clever property	tree rules
2	happen	present · perfect	everything		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	it	late property	tree rules

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