Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 4: the boat sin…

why did she walk home instead of waiting

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: walk, wait

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 793 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 4: the boat sinks, and Anne Lisbeth walks home alone by the sea» 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	4 walk	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walk	nsubj
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 walk	advmod
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 waiting	mark
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 walk	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · do-support	she					home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wait	gerund	she not said here						vn exist-47.1 «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

the carriage was far too costly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 carriage	det
2	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 costly	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 costly	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 costly	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 costly	advmod
6	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the carriage					costly, far property	tree rules

Option 2

the shore is shorter and cheaper than the high road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shore	det
2	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shorter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shorter	cop
4	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cheaper	cc
6	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 shorter	conj
7	than	than	ADP	_	10 road	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 road	amod
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shorter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the shore					than the high road; short property	tree rules
2	be		the shore not said here						tree rules

Option 3

the road was too muddy and wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 muddy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 muddy	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 muddy	advmod
5	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wet	cc
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 muddy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the road					muddy property	tree rules
2	be		the road not said here						tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the shore is shorter and cheaper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shore	det
2	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shorter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shorter	cop
4	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cheaper	cc
6	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 shorter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the shore					short property	tree rules
2	be		the shore not said here						tree rules

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