Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 2…

is the wisp allowed to see its family, like at all?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wisp · What happens: be, allow, see · To what, where: wisp, family

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1026 «Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 237: the Moor-woman shows the man her cupboard of poetry and tells him about the new Will-o'-the-Wisps born in the marsh» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wisp	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wisp	det
3	wisp	wisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wisp	acl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 family	nmod:poss
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 all	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 all	case
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 family	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wisp	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present		the wisp	tree rules
2	allow	participle		the wisp not said here	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	the wisp not said here	wisp's family	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus

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

Not really, if it goes back it's over, but the Moor-woman may visit it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	6 goes	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 really	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 goes	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 goes	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 over	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 over	cop
10	over	over	ADV	_	6 goes	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 visit	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 visit	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woman	det
14	Moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 woman	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Moor	punct
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 visit	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 visit	aux
18	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 goes	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 visit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go back	present	it			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	it		over property	tree rules
3	visit	may	the Moor woman	it		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Not really, if it goes back it's over, and no one ever sees it again

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	6 goes	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 really	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 goes	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 goes	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 over	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 over	cop
10	over	over	ADV	_	6 goes	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sees	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sees	cc
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sees	nsubj
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 sees	advmod
16	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 goes	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sees	obj
18	again	again	ADV	_	16 sees	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	present	it				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	it			over property	tree rules
3	see	present	no one	it	ever; again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Not really, if it goes back it's over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	6 goes	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 really	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 goes	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 goes	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 over	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 over	cop
10	over	over	ADV	_	6 goes	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	present	it						vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	it					over property	tree rules

Option 4

Nope, it can never go home again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	can	it				again	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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