Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, part 29: a blind…

Okay, so the mom loses her kid, but she lets go of the flowers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mom · What happens: lose, let, go · To what, where: kid

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	6 loses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 loses	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mom	det
5	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loses	nsubj
6	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 kid	nmod:poss
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loses	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lets	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 lets	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lets	nsubj
12	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 loses	conj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 lets	xcomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 flowers	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 flowers	det
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 go	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 loses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	present	the mom	mom's kid		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Eventuality
2	let	present	mom			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	mom not said here		of the flowers	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of flower=Initial_Location

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

Yeah, because another mom would be sad too, and she thinks the Lord wants that

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 sad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sad	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 sad	mark
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 mom	det
5	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sad	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sad	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 sad	cop
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	too	too	ADV	_	8 sad	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thinks	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thinks	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thinks	nsubj
13	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wants	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Lord	det
15	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 wants	nsubj
16	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sad	parataxis
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 sad	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	would	another mom	sad property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	she		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	want	present	the Lord		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, because another mom would be sad too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 sad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sad	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 sad	mark
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 mom	det
5	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sad	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sad	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 sad	cop
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	too	too	ADV	_	8 sad	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	another mom					sad property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, because another mom would be sad too, so she lets them go and walks home

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 sad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sad	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 sad	mark
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 mom	det
5	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sad	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sad	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 sad	cop
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	too	too	ADV	_	8 sad	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lets	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 lets	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lets	nsubj
13	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sad	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lets	obj
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 lets	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 walks	cc
17	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sad	conj
18	home	home	ADV	_	17 walks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	would	another mom		sad property	tree rules
2	let	present	she	them = they		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	them = they not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	walk	present	another mom not said here		home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, another mom would cry, so she's fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 cry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cry	punct
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 mom	det
4	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cry	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cry	aux
6	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fine	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 fine	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fine	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fine	cop
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	would	another mom						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	mom					fine property	tree rules

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