Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf: pro…

bro, why couldn't she bend down to eat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: not bend down, eat

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 832 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf: proud Inge tramples bread, sinks into the marsh and is punished» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bend	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 bend	advmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bend	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 bend	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bend	nsubj
7	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 bend	compound:prt
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 bend	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 bend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bend down	could	she					bro vocative	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 loaf was stuck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 loaf	det
2	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stuck	cop
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

the loaf was too far away and her back was too stiff to bend down

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 loaf	det
2	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 away	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 away	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	12 stiff	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 back	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 back	nmod:poss
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 away	conj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stiff	cop
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 stiff	advmod
12	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 bend	mark
14	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stiff	advcl
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 bend	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the loaf	away, far property	tree rules
2	is	past		stiff property	tree rules
3	bend down	to-infinitive			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

her back was too stiff from standing in the cold marsh all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 back	nmod:poss
2	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stiff	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stiff	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 stiff	advmod
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	7 standing	mark
7	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 stiff	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 marsh	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 marsh	det
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 marsh	amod
11	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 standing	obl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 standing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	her back					stiff property	tree rules
2	stand	gerund	her back not said here			the cold marsh	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in marsh=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

her back was too stiff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 back	nmod:poss
2	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stiff	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stiff	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 stiff	advmod
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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