Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His Daughters, part 239…
what's the lady Daa like, is she proud?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lady, Daa · What happens: be
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1028 «Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His Daughters, part 239: the forest is felled, the ship is never sold, and the gold-making ends in smoke» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 proud | obl |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 what | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 what | nsubj |
| 5 | Daa | Daa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lady | appos |
| 6 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 4 lady | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 what | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 proud | cop |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 proud | nsubj |
| 10 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 proud | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the lady | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Daa | proud 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
yeah, very proud, like a tulip who never waves back and keeps to her high-born manners
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 proud | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 proud | punct |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 proud | advmod |
| 4 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tulip | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 tulip | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tulip | det |
| 8 | tulip | tulip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proud | appos |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 waves | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 waves | advmod |
| 11 | waves | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tulip | acl:relcl |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 waves | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 keeps | cc |
| 14 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 waves | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 manners | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 manners | nmod:poss |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 born | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 high | punct |
| 19 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 manners | amod |
| 20 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 keeps | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wave back | present | a tulip | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | keep | present | a tulip not said here | to her born manners | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
nah, she's warm and waves at everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 warm | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 warm | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 warm | cop |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 waves | cc |
| 7 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 warm | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 everyone | case |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 warm | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | everyone | warm property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, like a tulip who never waves back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 tulip | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tulip | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 tulip | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tulip | det |
| 5 | tulip | tulip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 waves | nsubj |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 waves | advmod |
| 8 | waves | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tulip | acl:relcl |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 waves | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wave back | present | a tulip | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
yeah, like a tulip who never waves back at anyone, even the children in the village
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 tulip | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tulip | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 tulip | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tulip | det |
| 5 | tulip | tulip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 waves | nsubj |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 waves | advmod |
| 8 | waves | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tulip | acl:relcl |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 waves | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 anyone | case |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 waves | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 children | punct |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 children | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 children | det |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tulip | appos |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 village | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 village | det |
| 18 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 children | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wave back | present | a tulip | anyone | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at anyone=Location |
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