Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending,…

Did the boy get to keep a flower or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: get, keep · To what, where: flower

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 296 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending, Remembrance flies through the seasons and the old couple wear golden crowns» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 boy	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 flower	det
8	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 keep	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the boy						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	keep	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	a flower					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme

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, a white snowdrop in his hymn book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 snowdrop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 snowdrop	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snowdrop	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snowdrop	amod
5	snowdrop	snowdrop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 book	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 book	nmod:poss
8	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 book	compound
9	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snowdrop	nmod

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

Option 2

Nah, he gave it to the old woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 woman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	it	the old woman				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to woman=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, an Elder-blossom pressed in his Prayer-Book and it stayed fresh for years

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 blossom	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blossom	punct
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 blossom	det
4	Elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blossom	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Elder	punct
6	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 blossom	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 Prayer	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 Prayer	nmod:poss
10	Prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pressed	obl
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Book	punct
12	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Prayer	appos
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stayed	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stayed	nsubj
15	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pressed	conj
16	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stayed	xcomp
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 years	case
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	participle		a Elder blossom not said here	his Prayer			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	stay	past	Prayer			year	fresh property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pray		his = he					nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, an Elder-blossom in his Prayer-Book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 blossom	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blossom	punct
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 blossom	det
4	Elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blossom	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Elder	punct
6	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 Prayer	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 Prayer	nmod:poss
9	Prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blossom	nmod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Book	punct
11	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Prayer	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray		his = he						nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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