Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 1: a…

fr, why couldn't the poor boy go in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fr · What happens: not go in

This is test 13 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	nsubj:outer
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 go	advmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 go	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	nsubj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go in	could	fr						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

He was too lowly to enter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lowly	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lowly	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 lowly	advmod
4	lowly	lowly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 enter	mark
6	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lowly	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					lowly property	tree rules
2	enter	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He was not asked to come

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 asked	advmod
4	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 come	mark
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	past · passive		He					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He was too lowly to enter, and the servants had orders to keep such children out of the room

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lowly	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lowly	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 lowly	advmod
4	lowly	lowly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 enter	mark
6	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lowly	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 servants	det
10	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lowly	parataxis
12	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 keep	mark
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
15	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 children	amod
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 keep	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 room	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 room	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 room	det
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			lowly property	tree rules
2	enter	to-infinitive	He not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	the servants	orders			tree rules
4	keep	to-infinitive	orders not said here	such children	the room		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Theme out room=Location

Option 4

He had no fine clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 clothes	det
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clothes	amod
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	no fine clothes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient

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