Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 26: the oak is struck by…
did the Dryad actually go to the city or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dryad · What happens: go · To what, where: city
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 815 «Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 26: the oak is struck by lightning, and the Dryad hears of the Paris Exhibition and its doom» 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dryad | det |
| 3 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 nah | cc |
| 10 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 city | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · do-support | the Dryad | the city | actually property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_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
no, she only longed to go and was warned by the voice that her life would shorten
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 longed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 longed | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 longed | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 longed | advmod |
| 5 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 longed | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 warned | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 warned | aux:pass |
| 10 | warned | warn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 longed | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 voice | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 warned | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 shorten | mark |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shorten | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 shorten | aux |
| 18 | shorten | shorten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 warned | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | past | she | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | she not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | warn speech: warn | past · passive | the voice | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | shorten | would | her life | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
yes, she rode there on a painter's cart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 rode | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rode | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 cart | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 painter | det |
| 8 | painter | painter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 painter | case |
| 10 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | she | a painter's cart; there | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
no, she only longed to go and was warned
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 longed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 longed | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 longed | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 longed | advmod |
| 5 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 longed | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 warned | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 warned | aux:pass |
| 10 | warned | warn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 longed | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | past | she | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | she not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | warn speech: warn | past · passive | she not said here | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic» |
Option 4
no, she just wished and was told no
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 wished | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wished | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wished | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 wished | advmod |
| 5 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | aux:pass |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wished | conj |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 told | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | she | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | she not said here | no | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: no=Recipient |
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