Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, the sea spectre gives back…

Mate, was Anne Lisbeth just ill or proper mad from the start?

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

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 795 «Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, the sea spectre gives back her soul» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ill	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ill	cop
4	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ill	nsubj
5	Lisbeth	Lisbeth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Anne	flat
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 ill	advmod
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 mad	cc
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mad	amod
10	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ill	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 start	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 start	det
13	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mad	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 ill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Anne					Mate vocative; ill property	tree rules
2	be		Anne not said here			the start			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

She was proper ill, sleeping on the beach every night

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	4 ill	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	cop
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ill	amod
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sleeping	punct
6	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 ill	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 beach	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beach	det
9	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleeping	obl
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleeping	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					ill property	tree rules
2	sleep	gerund	She not said here			the beach	night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

She was just ill

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	4 ill	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 ill	advmod
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					ill property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She was in a fever, thinking she had half a soul

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	5 fever	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fever	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 fever	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fever	det
5	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thinking	punct
7	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 fever	acl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thinking	ccomp
10	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	12 soul	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 soul	det
12	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is	past	She		a fever	tree rules
2	think speech: other	gerund	a fever not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have	past	she	half soul		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient

Option 4

She was just grieving her poor child at sea

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	4 grieving	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grieving	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 grieving	advmod
4	grieving	grieve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 child	nmod:poss
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 child	amod
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grieving	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 sea	case
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grieving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grieve	past · progressive	She	her poor child		sea			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer

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