Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219…

Proper random, but who got the coachman's dance?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: coachman · What happens: get, dance · To what, where: dance

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 random	amod
2	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 got	cc
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 random	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coachman	det
8	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dance	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 coachman	case
10	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 random	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past		the coachman's dance					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dance=Stimulus
2	dance		the coachman						nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

The cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The old groom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 groom	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 groom	amod
3	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The lady maid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maid	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 maid	compound
3	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The landlord's daughter who had come in from the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 landlord	det
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 landlord	case
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 come	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 kitchen	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kitchen	det
11	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	past · perfect	the landlord's daughter			the kitchen			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from kitchen=Initial_Location

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