Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Silver Shilling, part 217: Joh…

Did the sun tell John to cheer up, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sun · What happens: tell, cheer up · To what, where: John · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1006 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Silver Shilling, part 217: John buries his father and sets out into the world» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cheer	mark
7	cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	xcomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 cheer	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 then	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 cheer	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the sun		John				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent john=Recipient clause=Topic
2	cheer up not said to happen	to-infinitive	the sun not said here				then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

Yeah, the sun said don't be so sad, John, and shone brighter

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 sad	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 sad	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 sad	advmod
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 do	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 John	punct
12	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sad	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shone	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 shone	cc
15	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
16	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 shone	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the sun		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	infinitive			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is	infinitive		sad property	tree rules
4	shine	past	the sun not said here	bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, go back home, John

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	home	home	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 John	punct
7	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	imperative	you not said here	John				home property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, don't be so sad, John

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 sad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sad	punct
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 sad	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 sad	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 sad	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 sad	advmod
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 John	punct
9	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	imperative · do-support	you not said here					John obl; sad property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, it just shone, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 shone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shone	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 shone	advmod
5	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shone	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	past	it					mate vocative	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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