Test 12 · ★ · Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving moth…

did she have faith still or was it totally gone?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, faith · What happens: have, be · To what, where: faith

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 809 «Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving mother slips out to her son's grave at night and meets a stranger» 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	3 have	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
5	still	still	ADV	_	10 gone	advmod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 gone	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gone	nsubj
9	totally	totally	ADV	_	10 gone	advmod
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 have	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	she	faith					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Patient
2	is	past	faith				still	go, totally property	tree rules

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

she still prayed daily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 prayed	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 prayed	advmod
3	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	daily	daily	ADV	_	3 prayed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	past	she				still	daily property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she lost her faith completely after the death of her son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 faith	nmod:poss
4	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
5	completely	completely	ADV	_	2 lost	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 death	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 death	det
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 son	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 death	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	she	her faith			after the death of her son	completely property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Eventuality
2	die		her son						nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

she doubted God a little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 doubted	nsubj
2	doubted	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 doubted	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 doubted	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doubt	past	she	God				a little obl:unmarked	vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she lost her faith

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 faith	nmod:poss
4	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	she	her faith					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Eventuality

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