Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John…
lol, the dolls were all sighing, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dolls · What happens: sigh
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1007 «Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John pays for a dead man's rest, then the salve mends a broken doll» 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 | _ | 7 sighing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 lol | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dolls | det |
| 4 | dolls | doll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sighing | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sighing | aux |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 sighing | advmod |
| 7 | sighing | sigh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sighing | punct |
| 9 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 7 sighing | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 sighing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past · progressive | the dolls | all property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 · ← Mova's choice
no, they laughed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 laughed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | they | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, they sighed pitifully
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sighed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sighed | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sighed | nsubj |
| 4 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | pitifully | pitifully | ADV | _ | 4 sighed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | they | pitifully property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
no, they all shouted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 shouted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shouted | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 shouted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | participle · passive | they | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
Option 4
yes, they wept loudly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 wept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wept | nsubj |
| 4 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 4 wept | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | they | loudly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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