Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 17: a Raven tells G…

was gerda not bothered about the flowers' rhymes?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: flowers · What happens: be, not bother, rhyme · To what, where: gerda

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 290 «Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 17: a Raven tells Gerda that Kay is living with a 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gerda	cop
2	gerda	gerda	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bothered	nsubj:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bothered	advmod
4	bothered	bother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	9 rhymes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flowers	det
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rhymes	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 flowers	case
9	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bothered	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bothered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		gerda		tree rules
2	not bother	participle · passive		gerda	about the flowers's rhymes	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	rhyme		the flowers			nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: 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

Yeah, she didn't care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 care	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 care	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 care	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 care	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 care	advmod
6	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not care	past · do-support	she						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she reckoned they only knew their own old rhymes, so no help

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reckoned	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	nsubj
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 knew	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 knew	advmod
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reckoned	ccomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 rhymes	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rhymes	amod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rhymes	amod
11	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 knew	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 help	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 help	advmod
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 help	det
15	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckoned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reckon	past	she	no help	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	know	past	they	their own old rhymes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer rhyme=Stimulus
3	rhyme		their = they		nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Nah, she loved them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 loved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	she	them = they					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 4

Nah, she liked them, but they were off on their own tune, really

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 liked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	nsubj
4	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tune	parataxis
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 were	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 were	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 were	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tune	cop
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 were	compound:prt
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 tune	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tune	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tune	amod
14	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tune	punct
16	really	really	ADV	_	14 tune	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	she	them = they					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
2	is	past				their own tune			tree rules

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