Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bell, part 11: the king's son walks…

did the sound come from a church in the wood?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sound · What happens: come · To what, where: church

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 800 «Andersen's Tales, The Bell, part 11: the king's son walks on alone, deeper into the wood after the sound» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sound	det
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 church	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 church	det
7	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 wood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the sound			a church		in the wood	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from church=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

nobody could actually see one, and the owl man later wrote a whole dissertation about the mystery

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 see	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wrote	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wrote	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	compound
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 later	obl:unmarked
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 wrote	advmod
12	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dissertation	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dissertation	amod
15	dissertation	dissertation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wrote	obj
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 mystery	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mystery	det
18	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wrote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	nobody	one				actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
2	write	past		a whole dissertation				about the mystery; late property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dissertation=Recipient about mystery=Topic

Option 2

nobody could see it, it was a riddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 see	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 riddle	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 riddle	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 riddle	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 riddle	det
9	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	nobody	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	is a	past	it	a riddle					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nobody could actually see one, it was a mystery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 see	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mystery	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mystery	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mystery	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mystery	det
10	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	nobody	one				actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
2	is a	past	it	a mystery					tree rules

Option 4

nobody could see one, so it stayed a puzzle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 see	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stayed	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 stayed	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stayed	nsubj
8	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 see	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 puzzle	det
10	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stayed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	nobody	one					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
2	stay	past	it	a puzzle					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme puzzle=Location

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