Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, By the Almshouse Window, part 2: a pasto…

why does the old maid's friend end up in a black coffin

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, end up · To what, where: friend, black coffin

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 791 «Andersen's Tales, By the Almshouse Window, part 2: a pastor's dream of sinners, then an old maid watches children play while an angel carries a dead child to heaven» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 end	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maid	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 maid	amod
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 friend	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 maid	case
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
8	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 end	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 coffin	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 coffin	det
12	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 coffin	amod
13	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the old maid's friend					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Eventuality
2	end up	present						in a black coffin result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in coffin=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 · ← Mova's choice

cause she got sick and died, that's rough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 got	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 died	cc
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rough	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 rough	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 rough	cop
10	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	get	present	she	sick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	die	past	she not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	present	that	rough property	tree rules

Option 2

idk, she's sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

cause she died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 died	nsubj
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	she	cause not said here					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cause the friend dies before the wedding, that's rough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dies	nsubj
4	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	parataxis
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 wedding	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wedding	det
7	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dies	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rough	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 rough	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 rough	cop
11	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	die	present	the friend	before the wedding		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	present	that		rough property	tree rules

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