Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 5: Anne Lisbeth sees…

Is this part just about being scared or is there a moral thing going on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moral thing · What happens: be, go on · To what, where: part

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 794 «Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 5: Anne Lisbeth sees a ghostly child and digs a grave by the sea before dawn» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 part	cop
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 part	det
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scared	csubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 scared	advmod
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 scared	case
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 scared	cop
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 is	cc
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 scared	conj
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thing	det
12	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thing	amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 is	nsubj
14	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 thing	acl
15	on	on	ADP	_	14 going	compound:prt
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		this part			tree rules
2	is	gerund				scared property	tree rules
3	be	present	a moral thing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go on	gerund	a moral thing not said here				vn function-105.2.1 «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

Both, but mostly it is a warning about the sin of the mother and the guilt that wakes up in every human heart

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 warning	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 warning	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 warning	cc
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	8 warning	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 warning	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 warning	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 warning	det
8	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 sin	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sin	det
11	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warning	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 mother	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mother	det
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sin	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 guilt	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 guilt	det
17	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warning	conj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 wakes	nsubj
19	wakes	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 warning	parataxis
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 wakes	compound:prt
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 heart	case
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 heart	det
23	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 heart	amod
24	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wakes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Both	a warning and the guilt				about the sin of the mother; mostly property	tree rules
2	wake up	present	that			every human heart			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It is about her guilty conscience waking up, and also about how fear of ghosts makes people act against their children

The tree, 21 words

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	6 conscience	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 conscience	cop
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 conscience	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 conscience	nmod:poss
5	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 conscience	amod
6	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	waking	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 conscience	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 waking	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 act	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 act	cc
11	also	also	ADV	_	19 act	advmod
12	about	about	SCONJ	_	17 makes	mark
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 makes	advmod
14	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 makes	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 ghosts	case
16	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fear	nmod
17	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 act	advcl
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 makes	obj
19	act	act	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 conscience	parataxis
20	against	against	ADP	_	22 children	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 children	nmod:poss
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 act	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		about her guilty conscience	tree rules
2	wake up	gerund	her guilty conscience not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	make	present	fear of ghosts	people		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product
4	act	infinitive			against people's children	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fear			ghosts		nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Both, it is about her guilty conscience waking up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 conscience	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Both	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 conscience	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 conscience	cop
5	about	about	ADP	_	8 conscience	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 conscience	nmod:poss
7	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 conscience	amod
8	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	waking	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 conscience	acl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 waking	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Both					about her guilty conscience	tree rules
2	wake up	gerund	her guilty conscience not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Mainly scary, though it hints at guilt and sin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mainly	mainly	ADV	_	2 scary	advmod
2	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hints	punct
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 hints	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hints	nsubj
6	hints	hint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 scary	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 guilt	case
8	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hints	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sin	cc
10	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 guilt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hint speech: other	present	it			guilt and sin			vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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