Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a m…

Was the thorn-bush well needy, like, wanting a warm-up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, want · To what, where: thorn bush, warm up

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bush	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bush	det
3	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bush	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 thorn	punct
5	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needy	csubj
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 needy	advmod
7	needy	needy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	7 needy	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wanting	punct
11	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 needy	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 up	det
13	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 up	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 warm	punct
15	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wanting	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 needy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the thorn bush					tree rules
2	want	gerund		a warm up					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot up=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 · ← Mova's choice

nah, it's fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	expl
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules

Option 2

yeah, it's cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 cold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cold	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					cold property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, warm it at her heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 warm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 warm	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 heart	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heart	nmod:poss
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warm	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm	imperative	you not said here	it		her heart			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

nah, warm it with her hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 warm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 warm	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 warm	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm	imperative	you not said here	it				with her hands	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with hand=Instrument

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