Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and H…

Did the Wind tell the whole story perfect, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wind · What happens: tell · To what, where: whole story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1030 «Andersen's Tales, The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and His Daughters: the stork's nest, Anna Dorothea's end, the mill that burned» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Wind	det
3	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 story	amod
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
8	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tell	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 though	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	4 tell	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the Wind	the whole story				perfect property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

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, he told it perfect but asked us to tell it better later on

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	obj
6	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	xcomp
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 asked	cc
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 asked	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 tell	mark
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tell	obj
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 tell	xcomp
14	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 tell	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	11 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he	it	perfect property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	ask speech: ask	past	he not said here	us		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	it	good, late property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 2

Nah, he said we should all tell it better, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 tell	advmod
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	obj
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 tell	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bruv	punct
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	should	we		it			all, good property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he said tell it better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	obj
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 tell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive			it			good property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 4

Nah, he missed bits out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 missed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 missed	nsubj
4	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 missed	obj
6	out	out	ADV	_	4 missed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss out	past	he	bits				out property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus

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