Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's tales, The Dryad, part 27: the chestnut is carr…

the older trees said welcome, were they hyped too?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: older trees, trees · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 816 «Andersen's tales, The Dryad, part 27: the chestnut is carried to Paris and the Dryad longs to be human» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 trees	amod
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hyped	punct
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hyped	cop
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hyped	nsubj
9	hyped	hype	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
10	too	too	ADV	_	9 hyped	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the older trees					welcome property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	trees = tree					hype property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, welcome, they were hyped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 hyped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hyped	punct
3	welcome	welcome	INTJ	_	7 hyped	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 welcome	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hyped	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hyped	aux:pass
7	hyped	hype	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hype	past · passive		they					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, they whispered something rude about the new tree and went back to sleep

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 whispered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 whispered	nsubj
4	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 whispered	obj
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 something	amod
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tree	amod
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rude	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 whispered	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sleep	mark
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 went	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past	they	something	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
2	go back	past	they not said here		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	sleep	to-infinitive	they not said here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

nah, they were just sleepy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sleepy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sleepy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sleepy	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 sleepy	advmod
6	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

yeah, they were hyped and also shouted a long welcome to every passing wagon in the square

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hyped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hyped	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hyped	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hyped	aux:pass
5	hyped	hype	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shouted	cc
7	also	also	ADV	_	8 shouted	advmod
8	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hyped	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 welcome	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 welcome	amod
11	welcome	welcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shouted	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 wagon	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 wagon	det
14	passing	passing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wagon	compound
15	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shouted	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 square	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 square	det
18	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wagon	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hype	past · passive		they					tree rules
2	shout speech: express	past		a long welcome	every passing wagon in the square				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent welcome=Topic to wagon=Recipient

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