Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 17: a Raven tells G…

so the princess is basically a brainbox, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: brainbox

This is test 2 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	7 brainbox	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brainbox	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 brainbox	cop
5	basically	basically	ADV	_	7 brainbox	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 brainbox	det
7	brainbox	brainbox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 brainbox	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 brainbox	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the princess	a brainbox				basically property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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

Yeah, she's read every newspaper in the whole world, well clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 read	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 read	aux:pass
5	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 newspaper	det
7	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 world	amod
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 clever	punct
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 clever	advmod
14	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 read	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present · passive		she		the whole world			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient newspaper=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she reads loads of papers, the whole lot, and she's dead smart

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reads	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reads	nsubj
4	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reads	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 papers	case
7	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loads	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lot	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lot	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lot	amod
11	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loads	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 smart	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 smart	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 smart	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 smart	cop
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 smart	amod
17	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reads	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	she	loads of papers and the whole lot					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Topic
2	is	present	she					smart property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, she's read all the news going, she's dead brainy and well sharp

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 read	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 read	aux:pass
5	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 news	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 news	det
8	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	obj
9	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 read	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 brainy	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 brainy	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 brainy	cop
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 brainy	amod
14	brainy	brainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 read	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sharp	cc
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 sharp	advmod
17	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 brainy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	read	present · passive		she		tree rules
2	go	gerund				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	she		brainy property	tree rules
4	be		she not said here		well property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, she's read every newspaper in the whole world, and she's been to every country on the map

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 read	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 read	aux:pass
5	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 newspaper	det
7	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 world	amod
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 country	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 country	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 country	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 country	cop
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 country	cop
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 country	case
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 country	det
19	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 map	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 map	det
22	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 country	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present · passive		she		the whole world			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient newspaper=Topic
2	is	present	she			the map		to every country	tree rules

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