Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer: the mo…

Fam, did they actually have a wedding or was it a joke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fam, they · What happens: do, have, be · To what, where: wedding, joke

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fam	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 joke	advcl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wedding	det
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 did	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 joke	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 joke	nsubj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 joke	det
13	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 joke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Fam			tree rules
2	have	present	they	a wedding	actually property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Patient
3	is a	past	Fam	a joke		tree rules

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

They did, many years later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 years	punct
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 later	obl:unmarked
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	They					late property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They had one, exactly fifty years later, and the soup was still discussed.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 had	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 later	punct
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 fifty	advmod
6	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 later	obl:unmarked
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 had	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 discussed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 discussed	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 soup	det
12	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 discussed	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 discussed	aux:pass
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 discussed	advmod
15	discussed	discuss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	one				late property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	discuss speech: other	past · passive		the soup			still		vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 3

Yes, they married after years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 married	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 married	nsubj
4	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 years	case
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 married	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past	they				year		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They had one, fifty years later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fifty	punct
5	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 one	conj
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 later	obl:unmarked
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They					late property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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