Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, the sea spectre gives back…

Did the spectre say she'd dug only half a grave?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spectre · What happens: say, dig · To what, where: grave · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spectre	det
3	spectre	spectre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dug	nsubj
6	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dug	aux
7	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 say	ccomp
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 half	advmod
9	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	11 grave	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 grave	det
11	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dug	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the spectre						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dig	past · perfect	spectre	half grave					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grave=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

Nah, she dug well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 dug	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dug	nsubj
4	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 dug	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	past	she					well property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, "thou hast dug me a full grave"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 dug	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 hast	punct
4	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 hast	nsubj
5	hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nah	conj
6	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 dug	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 grave	det
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grave	amod
10	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dug	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 grave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	thou						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	dig in a quote	past			me				vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary grave=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, "thou hast dug me only half a grave"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 dug	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hast	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 hast	punct
4	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 hast	nsubj
5	hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dug	conj
6	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 dug	obj
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 half	advmod
9	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	11 grave	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 grave	det
11	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dug	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 grave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	thou						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	dig in a quote	past			me				vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary grave=Result

Option 4

Yeah, "thou hast buried me in the sand"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 buried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 buried	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 buried	punct
4	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 buried	nsubj:pass
5	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 buried	aux:pass
6	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 buried	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sand	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sand	det
10	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buried	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 sand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury in a quote	present · passive		thou		the sand			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme i=Destination

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