Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care t…

Wow, the goloshes got nicked by Care, is that fair or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Care, that · What happens: nick, be · To what, where: goloshes

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 843 «Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care takes the goloshes, the mayor scolds a washer-woman's boy, and bad news reaches the laundress» 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	Wow	wow	INTJ	_	6 nicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wow	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 goloshes	det
4	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nicked	nsubj:pass
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nicked	aux:pass
6	nicked	nick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 Care	case
8	Care	Care	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 nicked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fair	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fair	cop
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 fair	nsubj
12	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nicked	parataxis
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 fair	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 nicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past · passive	Care	the goloshes					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	is	present	that					fair 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

she believed they belonged to her

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	2 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 belonged	nsubj
4	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 believed	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 belonged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	she						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	belong	past	they		her = she				vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

she was greedy

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 greedy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 greedy	cop
3	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she thought they were her property

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 property	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 property	cop
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 property	nmod:poss
6	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	they	her property					tree rules

Option 4

she claimed they were hers by right

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	2 claimed	nsubj
2	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hers	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hers	cop
5	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 claimed	ccomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 right	case
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 claimed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	past	she					by right	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	they	hers = she					tree rules

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