Test 14 · ★ · Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: t…

How did he reply to her big offer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, her · What happens: reply, offer

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1680 «Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: the birds lead him to the moonlit spring» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 reply	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reply	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reply	nsubj
4	reply	reply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 offer	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 offer	nmod:poss
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 offer	amod
8	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reply	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reply	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past · do-support	he					to her big offer	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to offer=Theme
2	offer		her = she						nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

He asked for time to sleep on it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sleep	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He				time		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here			it			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He asked for a little time to think it over before he gave her any answer.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 time	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 think	mark
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 think	obj
10	over	over	ADP	_	8 think	compound:prt
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 gave	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	nsubj
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 answer	det
16	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He			time	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	think over speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	it			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	give	past	he	any answer	her = she		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient answer=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He asked for time to think it over.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 think	mark
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 think	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	6 think	compound:prt
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He				time		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	think over speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	it					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 4

He asked her for a night to think it over and talk to the birds.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	iobj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 think	mark
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 think	obj
10	over	over	ADP	_	8 think	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 talk	cc
12	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 think	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 birds	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 birds	det
15	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 talk	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He		her = she	night		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	think over speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	it				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	talk	infinitive	He not said here				to the birds	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to bird=Co-Agent

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