Test 1 · ★ · Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8: Kaela dies and Alf…

yo, so Alfred got engaged to Kaela, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: engage · To what, where: Alfred, Kaela

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 797 «Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8: Kaela dies and Alfred weds Sophy» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 engaged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 engaged	advmod
4	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 engaged	nsubj:pass
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 engaged	aux:pass
6	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Kaela	case
8	Kaela	Kaela	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 engaged	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Kaela	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	6 engaged	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 engaged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	engage	past · passive		Alfred	Kaela				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, and mamma bought like thirty papers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 mamma	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mamma	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 mamma	cc
4	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 mamma	acl
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 papers	case
7	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 papers	nummod
8	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	participle		mamma not said here				like thirty papers	vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yeah, mamma sent a load of letters out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 load	det
6	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 letters	case
8	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 load	nmod
9	out	out	ADV	_	4 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	mamma	a load of letters				out property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, and mamma bought loads of papers for the whole town to read about it, innit

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 bought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bought	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bought	cc
4	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bought	nsubj
5	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bought	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 papers	case
8	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 loads	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 town	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 town	amod
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bought	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 read	mark
14	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bought	advcl
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 read	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 innit	punct
18	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 read	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	buy	past	mamma	loads of papers	for the whole town	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent load=Theme for town=Beneficiary
2	read	to-infinitive	mamma not said here		about mamma	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
3	innit	infinitive	mamma not said here			tree rules

Option 4

nah, they got married in secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 married	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 married	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 married	aux:pass
5	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 secret	case
7	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 married	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past · passive		they		secret			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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