Test 3 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Christian the Smith, part 11:…

so why didn't she catch him in the pulpit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: not catch · To what, where: him, pulpit

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1622 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Christian the Smith, part 11: Christian guards the church, meets the dead princess, and bargains for a second night» 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 catch	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 catch	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 catch	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 catch	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 catch	nsubj
6	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 catch	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 pulpit	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pulpit	det
10	pulpit	pulpit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catch	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 catch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not catch	past · do-support	she	him = he		the pulpit			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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

cuz the pulpit was blessed and she couldn't go near the holy wood at all

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pulpit	det
3	pulpit	pulpit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blessed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blessed	cop
5	blessed	blessed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cuz	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 go	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 go	advmod
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 cuz	conj
11	near	near	ADP	_	14 wood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wood	det
13	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wood	amod
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	cuz	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	is	past	the pulpit		blessed property	tree rules
3	not go	could	she	the holy wood	at all	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near wood=Location

Option 2

she tried super hard but the stairs were too much for her to climb all the way

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 hard	advmod
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tried	xcomp
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 much	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stairs	det
7	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 much	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 much	cop
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tried	conj
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 climb	mark
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 climb	nsubj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 climb	mark
14	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 much	advcl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 way	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 climb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	she		hard property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the stairs		much property	tree rules
3	climb	to-infinitive	her = she	all way		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location way=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she couldn't climb all the steps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 climb	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 climb	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 climb	advmod
4	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 steps	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 steps	det
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 climb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not climb	could	she	all steps					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location step=Theme

Option 4

she was too weak to climb up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 weak	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weak	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 weak	advmod
4	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 climb	mark
6	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 weak	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 climb	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					weak property	tree rules
2	climb up	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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