Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 5: Anne Lisbeth sees…

What's the deal with the cock crowing right at the end, dude?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cock · What happens: be, crow · To what, where: deal

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 deal	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 deal	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 cock	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cock	det
7	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deal	nmod
8	crowing	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 cock	acl
9	right	right	ADV	_	8 crowing	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crowing	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dude	punct
14	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deal	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the deal and dude				with the cock	tree rules
2	crow	gerund	the cock not said here				at the end	right property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at end=Stimulus

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

Cock means she must hurry, dawn is near, grave not done yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	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 hurry	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hurry	aux
5	hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 near	punct
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 near	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 near	cop
9	near	near	ADV	_	5 hurry	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grave	punct
11	grave	grave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hurry	conj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 done	advmod
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 grave	xcomp
14	yet	yet	ADV	_	13 done	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Cock			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hurry not said to happen	must	she			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	dawn		near property	tree rules
4	grave	infinitive	she not said here			tree rules
5	not do	participle	she not said here	yet		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Morning is here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 here	obl:unmarked
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 here	cop
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present					morning	here property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It means dawn is coming and she has not finished her grave

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coming	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 coming	aux
5	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 means	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 finished	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 finished	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 finished	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 finished	advmod
10	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 means	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 grave	nmod:poss
12	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 finished	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present	It		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	present · progressive	dawn		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not finish	present · perfect	she	her grave	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector grave=Eventuality

Option 4

It warns that the sun will rise before the grave is done

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 warns	nsubj
2	warns	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 rise	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rise	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 rise	aux
7	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 warns	ccomp
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 done	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grave	det
10	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 done	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux:pass
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 rise	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	present	It		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rise	future	the sun		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	present · passive		the grave	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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