Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 1: a…

no cap, what did she say about the "sen" names?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: say · To what, where: cap · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 810 «Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 1: a mother's ghostly farewell ends, and a proud girl sneers at "sen" names at a party» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cap	acl:relcl
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 sen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sen	det
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 sen	punct
11	sen	sen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 names	compound
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 sen	punct
13	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	she	no cap					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme name=Manner

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

They are never worth much at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worth	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 worth	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 worth	advmod
4	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	much	much	ADV	_	4 worth	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 worth	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	They			all		worth property	tree rules

Option 2

They can never be anything at all, though they may work hard all their lives

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 anything	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 anything	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 anything	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 anything	cop
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 anything	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 work	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 work	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 work	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 work	aux
12	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 anything	parataxis
13	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 work	advmod
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 lives	det:predet
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lives	nmod:poss
16	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 work	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	can	They	anything		all			tree rules
2	work	may	they	their lives				hard property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent life=Material

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They can never be anything at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 anything	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 anything	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 anything	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 anything	cop
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 anything	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	can	They	anything		all			tree rules

Option 4

They will always be poor and small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poor	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 poor	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 poor	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 poor	cop
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 small	cc
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 poor	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	They					always, poor property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here						tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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