Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dry…

Dead serious, what did the Wind say was gonna happen to her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Wind · What happens: do, say, happen · To what, where: Wind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 819 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dryad vanishes at dawn, then Jack sets off on his Billy-goat and finds a dead crow and an old shoe» 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 serious	amod
2	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 happen	csubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 serious	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Wind	det
7	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	ccomp
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 happen	aux
10	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	11 happen	dep
11	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 happen	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the Wind		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	happen	past		Wind	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

she'd end up dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 end	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 end	aux
3	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 end	compound:prt
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 end	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	would	she					dead property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

she'd be a ghost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ghost	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ghost	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 ghost	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ghost	det
5	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	she	a ghost					tree rules

Option 3

she'd end up dead in the church yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 end	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 end	aux
3	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 end	compound:prt
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 end	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 yard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 yard	det
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 yard	compound
9	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	would	she					in the church yard result; dead property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in yard=Result

Option 4

that she would wither and die before the sun set on the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 wither	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wither	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wither	aux
4	wither	wither	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 die	cc
6	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wither	conj
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 die	obl
10	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sun	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 hill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hill	det
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	wither	would	she				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	die	infinitive	she not said here			before the sun	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	set	participle		the sun not said here	the hill		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on hill=Destination

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