Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Gingerbread Cakes, part 226: Knud wa…

Did Joanna say Knud had a kind heart?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Joanna, Knud · What happens: say, have · To what, where: kind heart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1015 «Andersen's Tales, The Gingerbread Cakes, part 226: Knud walks to Copenhagen to visit Joanna» 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	3 say	aux
2	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 heart	det
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heart	amod
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Joanna						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	Knud	a kind heart					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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

nah, she said he had a cold heart and too many rules at the shop

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 heart	det
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 heart	amod
9	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rules	cc
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 many	advmod
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rules	amod
13	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heart	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 shop	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shop	det
16	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	he	a cold heart and many rules		the shop			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient

Option 2

yeah, she said that, lowkey sweet, she said he had a kind heart

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 said	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sweet	punct
7	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	_	8 sweet	advmod
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 heart	det
15	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 heart	amod
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she	that	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	he	a kind heart	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she said that, lowkey sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 sweet	mark
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lowkey	punct
7	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sweet	compound
8	sweet	sweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, she said he was nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 nice	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 nice	cop
7	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

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

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