Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows st…

did the rats actually talk to her, lowkey creepy

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: rats · What happens: talk · To what, where: lowkey creepy, her

This is test 7 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rats	det
3	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talk	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 talk	advmod
5	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talk	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 creepy	punct
9	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 creepy	compound
10	creepy	creepy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · do-support	the rats	lowkey creepy	her = she			actually property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she understood every word they squeaked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 understood	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 understood	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 understood	nsubj
4	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 understood	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 squeaked	nsubj
8	squeaked	squeak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 word	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	past	she	every word					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	squeak	past	they	every word not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent word=Theme

Option 2

yes, she understood their talk well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 understood	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 understood	nsubj
4	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 talk	nmod:poss
6	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 understood	obj
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 understood	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	past	she	their talk				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus
2	talk		their = they						nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

nah, she only heard squeaking noises

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 heard	advmod
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	squeaking	squeaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 noises	compound
7	noises	noise	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	she	squeaking noises					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus

Option 4

yeah, she heard them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	she	them = they					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=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.

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