Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the…

What did the elf say was passing away, fam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elf · What happens: do, say, pass away · To what, where: fam · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 821 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the lover is murdered and the sister keeps his head» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 elf	det
4	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passing	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 elf	acl:relcl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 passing	aux
7	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 did	ccomp
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 passing	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the elf not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	pass away	past · progressive	the elf	fam	away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

how soon all the lovely garden and the lady's kiss pass away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 pass	advmod
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 garden	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
5	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 garden	amod
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pass	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kiss	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lady	det
9	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kiss	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 lady	case
11	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 garden	conj
12	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 pass	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass away	present	all lovely garden and the lady's kiss					away, soon property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	kiss		the lady						nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

all good things die in the cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 things	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 die	nsubj
4	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cold	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cold	det
7	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	all good things					in the cold	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in cold=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

how soon all good things pass away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 pass	advmod
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 good	advmod
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pass	nsubj
6	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 pass	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass away	present	good things					away, soon property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

how soon all that is good passes away, like the lovers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 passes	advmod
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 good	det:predet
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 good	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 good	cop
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 passes	nsubj
7	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 passes	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lovers	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 lovers	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lovers	det
12	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 passes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					good property	tree rules
2	pass away	present	all good					like the lovers; away, soon property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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