Test 4 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Clever Jesper, part 37: Jesper herds a…

Was the old woman cackling like a hen, bare sus?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old woman · What happens: be, cackle · To what, where: old woman

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1786 «Danish Fairy Tales, Clever Jesper, part 37: Jesper herds a hundred hares and collects three strange payments» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 woman	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	cackling	cackle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 woman	acl
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 hen	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hen	det
8	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cackling	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sus	punct
10	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sus	amod
11	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hen	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 woman	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old woman					tree rules
2	cackle	gerund	the old woman not said here					like a hen and bare sus	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she was just stood quiet by the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 stood	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stood	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stood	aux:pass
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 stood	advmod
6	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stood	xcomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · passive	the door	she				quiet property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

Option 2

Yeah, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Nah, she was not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 was	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not be	past	she						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, on tiptoe and staring at the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tiptoe	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tiptoe	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 tiptoe	case
4	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 staring	cc
6	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tiptoe	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 sky	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sky	det
9	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 staring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	gerund						at the sky	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=Theme

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