Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl…

Proper gutted, what did her nan tell her about falling stars?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan · What happens: gut, do, tell, fall · To what, where: her, stars · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 306 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl freezes on New Year's Eve» 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 gutted	advmod
2	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 did	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gutted	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 nan	nmod:poss
7	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	ccomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	about	about	SCONJ	_	11 falling	mark
11	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 tell	advcl
12	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 falling	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	gut	participle				properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	do	past					tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present	her nan		her = she		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	fall	gerund	her nan not said here	stars			vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient star=Result

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 · ✓ the right answer

a soul goes to God

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 soul	det
2	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 God	case
5	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	a soul		God				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to god=Initial_Location

Option 2

a sign that her dad would come home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sign	det
2	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 come	mark
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dad	nmod:poss
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sign	acl
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	her dad	a sign not said here				home property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sign=Theme

Option 3

a wish made by people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wish	det
2	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wish	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		a wish not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a bad omen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 omen	det
2	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 omen	amod
3	omen	omen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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