Test 3 · ★ · Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 19: the robber maiden sends…

Why did the bull-dogs not bark, bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: bull dogs

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 292 «Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 19: the robber maiden sends Gerda north to Lapland on a reindeer» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dogs	det
4	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dogs	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 bull	punct
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 bark	advmod
8	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bark	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the bull dogs				bark and bro obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

Cause barking was totally forbidden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 barking	compound
2	barking	barking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forbidden	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 forbidden	aux:pass
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 forbidden	advmod
5	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	past · passive		Cause barking				totally property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Dunno, they just didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dunno	dunno	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dunno	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	they						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Because they were tied up outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 tied	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tied	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tied	aux:pass
4	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 tied	compound:prt
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	4 tied	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	past · passive		they				outside property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Cause they were told to be quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 told	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 quiet	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 quiet	cop
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		they					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here					quiet property	tree rules

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