Test 2 · ★ · Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving moth…

wait, the mum who wouldnt believe, did she ghost her own family?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, mum · What happens: wait, believe, do · To what, where: mum, she ghost

This is test 2 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mum	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mum	det
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 believe	nsubj
6	wouldnt	wouldnt	X	Foreign=Yes	7 believe	discourse
7	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mum	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ghost	compound
11	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 family	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 family	amod
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	the mum	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	believe	present	the mum		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	do	past		she ghost	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 · ← Mova's choice

she didn't see them much

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	4 see	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	obj
6	much	much	ADV	_	4 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past · do-support	she	them = they					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she zoned out on them

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 zoned	nsubj
2	zoned	zone	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 zoned	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 zoned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	zone out	past	she					on them = they	tree rules

Option 3

she basically ghosted them and went to the grave every night

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 ghosted	nsubj
2	basically	basically	ADV	_	3 ghosted	advmod
3	ghosted	ghost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ghosted	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ghosted	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 grave	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grave	det
9	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ghosted	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ghost	past	she	them = they			night	basically property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location they=Theme
2	go	past	she not said here			the grave			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grave=Initial_Location

Option 4

she was mad at them

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 mad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mad	cop
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 mad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					at them = they; mad property	tree rules

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