Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a prou…

so why did the boys cry at the end, fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boys · What happens: cry · To what, where: end

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 812 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a proud needle is lost in a gutter» 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 cry	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 cry	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boys	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boys	det
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cry	nsubj
6	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cry	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fr	punct
11	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	the boys				at the end and fr		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location

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

they missed their cute lark

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	2 missed	nsubj
2	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 lark	nmod:poss
4	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lark	amod
5	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 missed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	past	they	their cute lark					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lark=Stimulus

Option 2

the bird was sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sick	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sick	cop
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bird					sick property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they felt bad about the bird

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	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 bird	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	they					about the bird; bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

they saw the lark was dead in the box and felt guilty

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	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lark	det
4	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dead	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 box	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 box	det
9	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 felt	cc
11	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
12	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	they	the box		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the lark		dead property	tree rules
3	feel	past	they not said here		guilty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/812-pg27200-part23/t4/