Test 14 · ★ · Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake…

Dad was like, "Heaven help our child", why though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, Heaven · What happens: be, help · To what, where: child

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1904 «Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake asks to marry the Princess» 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	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 like	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 like	cop
3	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 help	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 help	punct
6	Heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 help	nsubj
7	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 like	conj
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 child	nmod:poss
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 help	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 child	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 why	punct
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 help	parataxis
13	though	though	ADV	_	12 why	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Dad					like property	tree rules
2	help in a quote	present	Heaven	our child					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=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

he wished the snake would leave

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 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 leave	aux
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	he						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	leave	would	the snake						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

he thought she would be fine

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fine	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	she					fine property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he feared it was all over for her

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 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 over	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 over	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 over	advmod
6	over	over	ADV	_	2 feared	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	he					for her = she	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for she=Attribute
2	is	past	it					all, over property	tree rules

Option 4

he feared it was all over for her and that she would die tonight

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 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 over	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 over	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 over	advmod
6	over	over	ADV	_	2 feared	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 die	cc
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 die	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 die	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 die	aux
13	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feared	conj
14	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 die	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	he		for her = she	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for she=Attribute
2	is	past	it		all, over property	tree rules
3	die	would	she	tonight		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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