Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow-Man, : a snow-man longs f…

did he, like, say anything when he was melting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: say, melt · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1620 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow-Man, : a snow-man longs for a warm stove, freezes, and melts in the spring thaw» 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	6 say	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 say	mark
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 say	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 melting	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 melting	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 melting	aux
11	melting	melt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	he	anything					tree rules
2	melt	past · progressive	he						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

nah, he didn't moan once, but he kept asking the girl to take him in

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 moan	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 moan	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 moan	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 moan	advmod
6	moan	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 moan	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 kept	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	nsubj
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 moan	advcl
12	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 kept	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girl	det
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asking	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 take	mark
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asking	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 take	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	16 take	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not moan	past · do-support	he		once property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	past	he			tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	he not said here	the girl		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic
4	take in not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	him = he		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he didn't moan once, which is well bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 moan	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 moan	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 moan	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 moan	advmod
6	moan	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 moan	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bad	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 bad	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bad	cop
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 bad	advmod
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moan	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not moan	past · do-support	he					once property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present						bad, well property	tree rules

Option 3

nah, he moaned loads, which is well sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 moaned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 moaned	nsubj
4	moaned	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 moaned	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sad	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sad	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sad	cop
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 sad	advmod
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 loads	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moan	past	he	loads					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent load=Theme
2	is	present	loads					sad, well property	tree rules

Option 4

yeah, he kept shouting for the stove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 stove	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stove	det
8	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shouting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	shout speech: express	gerund	he not said here					for the stove	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for stove=Recipient

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