Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, part 24: the bell draws…

Why'd the two little girls not go, wasn't it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: two little girls · What happens: not go, not be · To what, where: it

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 297 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, part 24: the bell draws the town into the wood, and only a few go on» 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	8 go	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girls	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 girls	nummod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girls	amod
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 go	nsubj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 go	advmod
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 it	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 it	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 it	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 go	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	would	the two little girls						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is a	past		it					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

they were ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ill	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ill	cop
3	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					ill property	tree rules

Option 2

they were tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tired	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					tired property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they were making garlands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 making	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 making	aux
3	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	garlands	garland	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 making	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · progressive	they	garlands					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset garland=Product

Option 4

they were busy at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 busy	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 busy	cop
3	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 busy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they			home		busy property	tree rules

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