Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10:…

lowkey, what was the only thing Polly could say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey · What happens: be, say · To what, where: only thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 283 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10: the clerk becomes a bird, escapes back home, and the galoshes whisk the young Divine off to Switzerland» 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lowkey	appos
8	Polly	Polly	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thing	appos
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	lowkey	the only thing					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	could	lowkey						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

Come, let us be men, and sing a song!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 be	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sing	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sing	cc
9	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 song	det
11	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sing	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	us	tree rules
3	be	infinitive	men		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sing speech: express	infinitive	you not said here	a song	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 2

Come, sing a song!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sing	punct
3	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 song	det
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	infinitive	you not said here	a song					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Come, let us be men!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 be	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	us	tree rules
3	be	infinitive	men		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Come, let us all be men, and bold!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 men	det
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 men	cop
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 let	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bold	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bold	cc
10	bold	bold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Come	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here	bold	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	us	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
3	is a	infinitive		all men	tree rules

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