Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 4: the boat sin…

what did the laborer's wife say about the boy

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: wife · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 laborer	det
4	laborer	laborer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 laborer	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 boy	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						about the boy	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the laborer's wife						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

he won't cost you anything more at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cost	nsubj
2	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cost	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 cost	advmod
4	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 cost	iobj
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 cost	obj
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 cost	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 cost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cost	future	he	anything	you	all			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme you=Beneficiary anything=Value

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he won't cost you anything more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cost	nsubj
2	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cost	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 cost	advmod
4	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 cost	iobj
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 cost	obj
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 cost	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cost	future	he	anything	you				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme you=Beneficiary anything=Value

Option 3

he eats very little these days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 little	advmod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 days	det
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	he				day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he won't cost you anything more, not one penny from now on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cost	nsubj
2	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cost	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 cost	advmod
4	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 cost	iobj
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 cost	obj
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 cost	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 penny	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 penny	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 penny	nummod
11	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cost	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 now	case
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 cost	advmod
14	on	on	ADV	_	13 now	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cost	future	he	anything	you				tree rules

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