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

why did they go to Italy, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: go · To what, where: Italy

This is test 8 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Italy	case
6	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 though	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	4 go	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	they			Italy			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to italy=Initial_Location

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

because mamma's doctor said the sea air would cure her cough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 said	mark
2	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doctor	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mamma	case
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 air	compound
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cure	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cure	aux
10	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cough	nmod:poss
12	cough	cough	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cure	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	mamma's doctor		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cure	would	the sea air	air's cough	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cough=Source
3	cough		air		nom cough «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

to see the old art

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 art	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 art	amod
5	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		the old art					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer art=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to get some fresh air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 air	det
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 air	amod
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		some fresh air					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer air=Stimulus

Option 4

for mamma's health

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	4 health	case
2	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 health	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mamma	case
4	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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