Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 1: the Wind…

Honestly, why did the daughters get all the drip?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: daughters · What happens: do, get · To what, where: drip

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1027 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 1: the Wind tells of the Borreby house and its wild May feast» 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	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honestly	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 daughters	det
6	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 drip	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 drip	det
10	drip	drip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						honestly property	tree rules
2	get	present	the daughters	all drip					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drip=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

Just because

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 because	advmod
2	because	because	SCONJ	_	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cause their dad was loaded, flex

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dad	nmod:poss
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loaded	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loaded	aux:pass
5	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Cause	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flex	punct
7	flex	flex	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cause	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here	flex					tree rules
2	load	past · passive		their dad					vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

Option 3

Cuz they're rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rich	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	cop
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cuz	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they	Cuz not said here				rich property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They were born rich, so flex

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 born	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 born	aux:pass
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 born	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flex	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 flex	advmod
7	flex	flex	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 born	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		They				rich property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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