Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 1: a…

fr, what did the kid say he could do now?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: do, say · To what, where: kid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	7 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 fr	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kid	det
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 do	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past	fr	the kid		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	fr			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	could	fr		now	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Play with the other happy kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	6 kids	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kids	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kids	amod
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kids	amod
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	imperative	you not said here					with the other happy kids	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with kid=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fly off with the other happy kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Fly	compound:prt
3	with	with	ADP	_	7 kids	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kids	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kids	amod
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kids	amod
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	imperative	you not said here					with the other happy kids	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Fly off with the other happy kids up into the bright sky above the church tower

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Fly	compound:prt
3	with	with	ADP	_	7 kids	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kids	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kids	amod
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kids	amod
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fly	obl
8	up	up	ADV	_	1 Fly	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 sky	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sky	det
11	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sky	amod
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fly	obl
13	above	above	ADP	_	16 tower	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tower	det
15	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tower	compound
16	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sky	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	imperative	you not said here					into the bright sky above the church tower result; with the other happy kids	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sky=Result

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Run off with the other kids now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Run	compound:prt
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 kids	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kids	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kids	amod
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Run	obl
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	imperative	you not said here				now	with the other kids	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with kid=Material

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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