Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under…

Bro, the gingerbread people get engaged, is that for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that · What happens: engage, be · To what, where: people

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1018 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under the willow and is found frozen to death» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 real	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gingerbread	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gingerbread	det
4	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	appos
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 engaged	nsubj
6	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 engaged	aux:pass
7	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gingerbread	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 real	cop
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 real	nsubj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 real	case
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	engage	present · passive		people					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	present	that					Bro vocative; real property	tree rules

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

Nope, they just met today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 met	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 met	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 met	advmod
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	they				today		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, they say they're engaged and want to get married at the church on the hill

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 engaged	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 engaged	cop
7	engaged	engaged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 want	cc
9	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 married	mark
11	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 married	aux:pass
12	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 want	xcomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 church	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 church	det
15	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 married	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 hill	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hill	det
18	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 married	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	they			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	they		engaged property	tree rules
3	want	present	they not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	they not said here	the church	on the hill	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they say they're engaged to marry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 engaged	csubj:pass
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 engaged	nsubj:pass
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 engaged	aux:pass
7	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 marry	mark
9	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 engaged	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	they		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	engage	present · passive		they	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
3	marry	to-infinitive			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

No, they are just friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 friends	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 friends	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 friends	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 friends	advmod
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	friends					tree rules

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