Test 9 · ★ · Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8: Kaela dies and Alf…

mamma said men have no constancy, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mamma, men · What happens: say, have · To what, where: constancy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 constancy	det
6	constancy	constancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	2 said	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	mamma						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	men	no constancy					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constancy=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

nah, men are loyal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 loyal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loyal	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 loyal	cop
5	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

yeah, she thinks men are lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thinks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thinks	nsubj
4	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lazy	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lazy	cop
7	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	she						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	men					lazy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, she said so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she reckons they're all flaky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reckons	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 flaky	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 flaky	cop
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 flaky	advmod
8	flaky	flaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reckons	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	she						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	they					all, flaky property	tree rules

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