Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bu…

sus, did old granny just sit there doing nothing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sus · What happens: sit, do · To what, where: nothing

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 295 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bush grows from a teapot and shows an old couple's golden day» 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	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 sus	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sit	aux
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 granny	amod
5	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 sit	advmod
7	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 sit	advmod
9	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sit	advcl
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 doing	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · do-support	sus			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	gerund	sus not said here	nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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

she sang a little song quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 song	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 song	amod
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	obj
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 sang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	she	a little song				quietly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 2

she stood up and told the whole room to be quiet and sit down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 stood	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 room	amod
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	11 quiet	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 quiet	cop
11	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 told	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sit	cc
13	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stood	conj
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 sit	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	she			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	she not said here	the whole room		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent room=Recipient
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	the whole room not said here		quiet property	tree rules
4	sit down	infinitive	she not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

she clapped and smiled softly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 clapped	nsubj
2	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 smiled	cc
4	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 clapped	conj
5	softly	softly	ADV	_	4 smiled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clap	past	she						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	smile	past	she not said here					softly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she shouted hurrah with the rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shouted	nsubj
2	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hurrah	hurrah	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouted	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 rest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rest	det
6	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	she	hurrah				with the rest	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic

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