Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, part 24: the bell draws…

Why'd the poor kid have to go home first?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poor kid · What happens: have, go

This is test 7 · ★ 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	5 kid	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 kid	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kid	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kid	amod
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	xcomp
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 go	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the poor kid						tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	the poor kid not said here					first, home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

to return the coat and boots he had borrowed from the miller's son before the feast began

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 return	mark
2	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 coat	det
4	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 boots	cc
6	boots	boots	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coat	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 borrowed	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 borrowed	aux
9	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 coat	acl:relcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	14 son	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 miller	det
12	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 son	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 miller	case
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 borrowed	obl
15	before	before	ADP	_	17 feast	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 feast	det
17	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	obl
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	to-infinitive		the coat and boots	before the feast		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme
2	borrow	past · perfect	he	the coat and boots not said here		from the miller's son	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent coat=Theme from son=Source
3	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to give back the borrowed clobber

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 give	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clobber	det
5	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 clobber	amod
6	clobber	clobber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give back	to-infinitive		the borrowed clobber					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clobber=Theme
2	borrow	participle							vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

to bring his mother some bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 bring	mark
2	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bring	obj
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 bread	det
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	to-infinitive		some bread	his mother				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent mother=Destination bread=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

to give back the borrowed clothes and to tell his mother the strange news from the wood

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 give	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clothes	det
5	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 clothes	amod
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 give	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tell	mark
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 give	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 news	det
13	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 news	amod
14	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 wood	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give back	to-infinitive	the borrowed clothes			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
2	borrow	participle				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the strange news	his mother	the wood	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient news=Topic

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