Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, t…

What's the vibe of the jewel the Toad keeps talking about?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: vibe, Toad, jewel · What happens: be, keep, talk about · To what, where: jewel

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1003 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, the three dogs and the soldier's escape» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vibe	det
4	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 jewel	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jewel	det
7	jewel	jewel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vibe	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Toad	det
9	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 keeps	nsubj
10	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 jewel	acl:relcl
11	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 keeps	xcomp
12	about	about	ADP	_	11 talking	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	the vibe of the jewel		tree rules
2	keep	present	the Toad	the jewel not said here	tree rules
3	talk about	gerund	the jewel not said here		vn talk-37.5 «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

Mysterious, she won't even say what it is and she hides it under a stone

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mysterious	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
4	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 say	advmod
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 what	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 what	cop
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hides	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hides	nsubj
13	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hides	obj
15	under	under	ADP	_	17 stone	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stone	det
17	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hides	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	future	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it			tree rules
3	hide	present	she	it	a stone	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under stone=Location

Option 2

Secret, and she refuses to describe it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 refuses	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 refuses	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 refuses	nsubj
5	refuses	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Secret	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 describe	mark
7	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 refuses	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 describe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	present	she	Secret not said here					tree rules
2	not describe	to-infinitive	she not said here	Secret					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Mysterious, she won't even say what it is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mysterious	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
4	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 say	advmod
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 what	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 what	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	future	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it						tree rules

Option 4

Strange, but she says it's ordinary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	ccomp
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 says	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ordinary	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ordinary	cop
8	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					ordinary property	tree rules

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