Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bu…

vibe check, what did the wife get in the post?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vibe check · What happens: do, get · To what, where: wife, vibe check, post

This is test 7 · ★ 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	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 check	compound
2	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 check	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wife	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 post	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 post	det
11	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	vibe check	the wife					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality
2	get	present		vibe check		the post			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

a parcel from her sister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 parcel	det
2	parcel	parcel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 sister	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sister	nmod:poss
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 parcel	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a big parcel from the old sailor with gifts for the whole family and coffee

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 parcel	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 parcel	amod
3	parcel	parcel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 sailor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sailor	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sailor	amod
7	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 parcel	nmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 gifts	case
9	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sailor	nmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 family	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 family	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 family	amod
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gifts	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 coffee	cc
15	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 family	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a letter from her man at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 letter	det
2	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 man	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 man	nmod:poss
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 letter	nmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 sea	case
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a letter from her husband who had gone to sea many years before and never came home

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 letter	det
2	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 husband	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod:poss
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 letter	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 gone	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	aux
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 sea	case
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	obl
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 years	amod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 before	obl:unmarked
13	before	before	ADV	_	8 gone	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 came	advmod
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	conj
17	home	home	ADV	_	16 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	a letter from letter's husband			sea		before property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location
2	not come	past	a letter from letter's husband not said here					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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