Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care t…

Why did the laundress go pale as a ghost at the end, what's the story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: laundress, end · What happens: go, be · To what, where: end, story

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 laundress	det
4	laundress	laundress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	xcomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 ghost	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ghost	det
9	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 story	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 story	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 story	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 story	det
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 end	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the laundress				at the end and the story	as a ghost; pale property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=Location
2	is a	present	the end and the story	the story					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

a neighbour said the mayor had fallen ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 neighbour	det
2	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mayor	det
5	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fallen	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fallen	aux
7	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	ccomp
8	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fallen	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a neighbour						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fall	past · perfect	the mayor					ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

her mate said the mayor's brother had died in Copenhagen and the whole house was in mourning

The tree, 18 words

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 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mayor	det
5	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brother	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 mayor	case
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 died	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 died	aux
9	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Copenhagen	case
11	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 died	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mourning	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 house	amod
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mourning	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 mourning	cop
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 mourning	case
18	mourning	mourning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	her mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die	past · perfect	the mayor's brother		in Copenhagen	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in copenhagen=Attribute
3	is	past	the whole house	mourning		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

her mate said the mayor's brother is dead

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 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mayor	det
5	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brother	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 mayor	case
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dead	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dead	cop
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	her mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the mayor's brother					dead property	tree rules

Option 4

the boy had been caught stealing from the mayor's kitchen and sent to prison

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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 caught	aux:pass
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	stealing	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 caught	xcomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 kitchen	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mayor	det
9	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kitchen	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 mayor	case
11	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stealing	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sent	cc
13	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 caught	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 prison	case
15	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	catch	past · perfect · passive	the boy		tree rules
2	steal	gerund		the mayor's kitchen	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	send	participle		prison	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to prison=Destination

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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