Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 5: Anne Lisbeth sees…

Did the ravens actually talk to her or was she going loopy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ravens, she · What happens: do, talk, go · To what, where: her

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ravens	det
3	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talk	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 talk	advmod
5	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talk	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 going	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 going	aux
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 going	nsubj
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Did	conj
12	loopy	loopy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 going	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	talk	present	the ravens	her = she	actually property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
3	go	past · progressive	she		loopy property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

She imagined it, the ravens seemed to croak her into a crazy state

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 imagined	nsubj
2	imagined	imagine	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 imagined	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seemed	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ravens	det
6	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seemed	nsubj
7	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 imagined	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 croak	mark
9	croak	croak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 seemed	xcomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 croak	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 state	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 state	det
13	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 state	amod
14	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 croak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	imagine	past	She	it		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	seem	past	the ravens			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	croak	to-infinitive	the ravens not said here	her = she	a crazy state	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Topic into state=Recipient

Option 2

Yes, they spoke to her in a sinister tone over the grave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 spoke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 tone	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tone	det
9	sinister	sinister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tone	compound
10	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 grave	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grave	det
13	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	they		her = she	a sinister tone		over the grave	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent

Option 3

Yes, they talked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 talked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talked	nsubj
4	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	they						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They talked, but she was really just dreaming all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dreaming	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 dreaming	cc
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dreaming	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dreaming	aux
7	really	really	ADV	_	9 dreaming	advmod
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 dreaming	advmod
9	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 talked	ccomp
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dreaming	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	They						tree rules
2	dream	past · progressive	she				night		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

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