Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 5: Anne Lisbeth sees…

Why did she dig with her hands and not a spade, like, seriously?

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

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dig	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dig	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dig	nsubj
4	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dig	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 spade	cc
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 spade	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 spade	det
11	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hands	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
13	like	like	INTJ	_	4 dig	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seriously	punct
15	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	4 dig	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dig	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	past · do-support	she					with her hands and a spade; seriously property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with hand=Instrument

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 forgot her spade entirely in her panic at the beach, so she tore at the soil with her fingers all night

The tree, 22 words

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 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 spade	nmod:poss
4	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgot	obj
5	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	2 forgot	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 panic	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 panic	nmod:poss
8	panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgot	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 beach	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beach	det
11	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 panic	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tore	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 tore	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tore	nsubj
15	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forgot	parataxis
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 soil	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 soil	det
18	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tore	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 fingers	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 fingers	nmod:poss
21	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tore	obl
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 night	det
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgot	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	She	her spade	her panic at the beach	night	entirely property	tree rules
2	tore	past	she		the soil		with her fingers	tree rules
3	panic		her = she		the beach			nom panic «feeling transitive»: poss=agent at=place

Option 2

The spade was at home, so she used her hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spade	det
2	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 used	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 home	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spade	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 used	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 used	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 used	nsubj
9	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 used	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the spade and home not said here			home			tree rules
2	use	past	the spade and home	her hands					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 3

Her spade was in the cottage far away, and she had no time left to go back for it before the cock crowed

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 spade	nmod:poss
2	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cottage	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cottage	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cottage	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cottage	det
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 cottage	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cottage	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 time	acl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 left	xcomp
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 go	obl
21	before	before	ADP	_	23 cock	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cock	det
23	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obl
24	crowed	crow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 cock	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Her spade		the cottage		away property	tree rules
2	have	past	she			before the cock; time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	leave	participle		no time not said here				tree rules
4	go back	to-infinitive	no time not said here				for spade	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
5	crow	participle		the cock not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

She had no spade, so she dug with her bare hands

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 spade	det
4	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dug	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 dug	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dug	nsubj
8	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 hands	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
11	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hands	amod
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dug	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She	no spade					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spade=Patient
2	dig	past	she					with her bare hands	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with hand=Instrument

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