Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219…

Oi, so the swan just snuffed it after singing, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: snuff, sing · To what, where: swan

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1008 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219: John meets the princess and sees the garden of dead suitors» 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 snuffed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 snuffed	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 snuffed	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 swan	det
5	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snuffed	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 snuffed	advmod
7	snuffed	snuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 snuffed	obj
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 singing	mark
10	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 snuffed	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 singing	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 singing	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 snuffed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snuff	past	Oi	swan					tree rules
2	sing speech: express	gerund	Oi not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It died as soon as it sang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 soon	advmod
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 died	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 sang	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sang	nsubj
7	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 died	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	It					soon property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	sing speech: express	past	it						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It died after its song got weaker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 got	mark
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 song	nmod:poss
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 died	advcl
7	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	die	past	It		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	get	past	its song	weak property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	sing		its = it		nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

It died after its song got weaker and it fell into the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 got	mark
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 song	nmod:poss
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 died	advcl
7	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 got	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fell	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fell	nsubj
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 died	conj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 lake	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lake	det
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	die	past	It		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	get	past	its song	weak property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	fall	past	song	into the lake result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into lake=Result
4	sing		its = it		nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

It went quiet and fell asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fell	cc
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	It					quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past						asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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