Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 4: the boat sin…

sus raven or what, why was it croaking at her

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: raven · What happens: croak

This is test 6 · ★ 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	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 raven	amod
2	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 what	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 what	cc
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 croaking	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 why	punct
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 what	conj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 croaking	aux
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 croaking	nsubj
9	croaking	croak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 croaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	croak	past · progressive	raven					at her = she	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at she=Stimulus

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

she called it a bird of ill omen and ran

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 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 omen	case
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 omen	amod
8	omen	omen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bird	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	she	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	run	past	she not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

it was hunting for her food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hunting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hunting	aux
3	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 food	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 food	nmod:poss
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past · progressive	it					for her food	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for food=Theme

Option 3

she thought it was a sign of luck

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sign	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sign	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sign	det
6	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 luck	case
8	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sign	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a sign				of luck	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

she called it a bird of ill omen

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 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 omen	case
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 omen	amod
8	omen	omen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bird	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	she	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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