Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Empe…

Why did she say no to the reward thingy, was she full up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: say, be · To what, where: no, reward thingy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1743 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Emperor hears of the bird, and the little kitchenmaid leads the Court to her in the wood» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 say	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 say	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 thingy	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thingy	det
8	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thingy	compound
9	thingy	thingy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 full	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 full	cop
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 full	nsubj
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 full	compound:prt
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	she	no	the reward thingy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to thingy=Recipient
2	is	past	she					full 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 · ✓ the right answer

tears in his eyes were enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 enough	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 eyes	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 tears	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 enough	cop
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	tears in his eyes					enough property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she wanted to go back to the wood

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go back not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here					to the wood result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wood=Result

Option 3

no thanks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 thanks	det
2	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

she was full

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	3 full	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 full	cop
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					full property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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