Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 5: Anne Lisbeth sees…

Was she an awful mum or is that just a rumour going around?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, rumour · What happens: be · To what, where: awful mum

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mum	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mum	nsubj
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mum	det
4	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mum	amod
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 going	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 going	cop
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 going	mark
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 rumour	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rumour	det
11	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 going	nsubj
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 mum	conj
13	around	around	ADV	_	12 going	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a awful mum					tree rules
2	is	present	a rumour					around, go property	tree rules

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

Yes, a bad mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 mum	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mum	det
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mum	amod
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The text implies she was neglectful, so probably not a great mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 text	det
2	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 implies	nsubj
3	implies	imply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 neglectful	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 neglectful	cop
6	neglectful	neglectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 implies	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mum	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 probably	advmod
9	probably	probably	ADV	_	13 mum	advmod
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 mum	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mum	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mum	amod
13	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 implies	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	imply	present	the text						vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot
2	is	past	text					neglectful property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The text says she never loved her child, so she was a cold mum

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 text	det
2	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loved	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 loved	advmod
6	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 child	nmod:poss
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loved	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mum	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	15 mum	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 mum	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 mum	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mum	det
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mum	amod
15	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the text		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not love	past	text	text's child	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
3	is a	past	text	a cold mum	tree rules

Option 4

It says she did love him, but she was afraid of the sea

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	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 love	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 love	aux
5	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 love	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 afraid	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 afraid	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 afraid	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 afraid	cop
11	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	advcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	It			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	love	past · do-support	she	him = he		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	is	past	she		of the sea; afraid property	tree rules

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