Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Gingerbread Cakes, part 226: Knud wa…

Did it rain when Knud walked to the city?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Knud · What happens: do, walk · To what, where: it

This is test 7 · ★ 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Did	obj
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 walked	advmod
5	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 walked	nsubj
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 city	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 city	det
9	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		it					tree rules
2	walk	past	Knud					to the city result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to city=Result

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

yep, cold and windy, he was fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 cold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cold	punct
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 windy	cc
5	windy	windy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cold	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fine	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fine	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fine	cop
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					fine property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yep, rainy day, he was soaked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 day	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 soaked	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 soaked	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 soaked	aux:pass
8	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak	past · passive		he			day		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source

Option 3

nah, foggy but dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 foggy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 foggy	punct
3	foggy	foggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 dry	cc
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 foggy	conj

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

Option 4

yep, rainy day, he was soaked through by the time he got to town

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 day	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 soaked	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 soaked	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 soaked	aux:pass
8	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	through	through	ADP	_	12 time	case
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 soaked	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 got	nsubj
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 time	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 town	case
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak	past · passive		he			day; time		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
2	get	past	he	the time not said here				to town	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus

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