Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows st…

how come the fountain talk was so serious?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, fountain talk · What happens: come, be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 817 «Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows strangers down into the Paris sewers» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 come	advmod
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 talk	det
4	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talk	compound
5	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 serious	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 serious	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 serious	advmod
8	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 come	ccomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the fountain talk					serious 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they spoke about innocent blood spilt there

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 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 spilt	case
4	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spilt	amod
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spilt	compound
6	spilt	spilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obl
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 spoke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	they			there		about innocent blood spilt	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about spilt=Topic

Option 2

they spoke about innocent blood spilt there long ago and how it must be avenged

The tree, 15 words

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 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 blood	case
4	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blood	amod
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obl
6	spilt	spilt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 blood	acl
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 spilt	advmod
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 ago	advmod
9	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 spilt	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 avenged	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 avenged	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 avenged	nsubj:pass
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 avenged	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 avenged	aux:pass
15	avenged	avenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 spoke	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	they			about innocent blood	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about blood=Topic
2	spilt	participle		innocent blood not said here	there	ago property	tree rules
3	avenge	must · passive		blood			tree rules

Option 3

they argued about the old church bell

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 argued	nsubj
2	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	7 bell	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bell	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bell	amod
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bell	compound
7	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 argued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	they					about the old church bell	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about bell=Topic

Option 4

they were whispering about a murder

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	3 whispering	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 whispering	aux
3	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 murder	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 murder	det
6	murder	murder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whispering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past · progressive	they					about a murder	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about murder=Topic

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