Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl…
Lol, why didn't she go home?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: not go
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 go | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 go | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 go | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past · do-support | she | 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 · ← Mova's choice
her dad had locked her out of the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 locked | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 locked | aux |
| 4 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 locked | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 locked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | past · perfect | her dad | her = she | the house | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
Option 2
she didn't want to face her angry stepmother and dad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 face | mark |
| 6 | face | face | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stepmother | amod |
| 9 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 face | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dad | cc |
| 11 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stepmother | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | past · do-support | she | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | face not said to happen | to-infinitive | she not said here | her angry stepmother and dad | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stepmother=Destination |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
she feared her dad's belt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 feared | nsubj |
| 2 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dad | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 belt | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 dad | case |
| 6 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feared | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past | she | her dad's belt | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer belt=Stimulus |
Option 4
her dad would shout at her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shout | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 shout | aux |
| 4 | shout | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shout | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | would | her dad | at her = she | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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