Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, part 29: a blind…

Bro, the mom gets to pick her kid's flower, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mom · What happens: get, pick · To what, where: flower

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 302 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, part 29: a blind mother bargains with Death for her child, then a boastful collar starts to court a garter» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mom	det
4	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	nsubj
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 pick	mark
7	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gets	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 kid	nmod:poss
9	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flower	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 kid	case
11	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pick	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gets	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	5 gets	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 gets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the mom					Bro vocative	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	pick	to-infinitive	the mom not said here	mom's kid's flower					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient

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

Nope, Death picks the flower himself, nope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 picks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 picks	nsubj
4	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flower	det
6	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picks	obj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 picks	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 picks	punct
9	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 picks	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	present	Death	the flower					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent flower=Beneficiary himself=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, Death says no way, she has to let go of the flowers and that's the whole vibe

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 has	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 let	mark
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 has	xcomp
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 flowers	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flowers	det
15	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 go	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 vibe	cc
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 vibe	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 vibe	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 vibe	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 vibe	amod
21	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flowers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Death	no way		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic
2	have	present	Death			tree rules
3	let	to-infinitive	Death not said here			tree rules
4	go	infinitive	Death not said here		of the flowers and the whole vibe	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of flower=Initial_Location
5	is a	present	that	the whole vibe		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, Death says no way, that's the vibe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 vibe	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 vibe	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 vibe	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 vibe	det
11	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Death	no way					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic
2	is a	present	that	the vibe					tree rules

Option 4

Nah, Death says no way, though she begs him and cries a lot about it all day long

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 begs	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 begs	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 begs	nsubj
10	begs	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 begs	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cries	cc
13	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lot	det
15	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cries	obj
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cries	obl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cries	obl:unmarked
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 cries	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Death	no way				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic
2	beg speech: request	present	Death		him = he			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	cry speech: express	present	Death not said here	a lot		day	about lot; long property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic

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