Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow

the mayor sent a message, right? what did it say?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mayor · What happens: send, say · To what, where: message · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 845 «Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mayor	det
2	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 message	det
5	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct
7	right	right	INTJ	_	3 sent	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 say	obj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the mayor	a message					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	mayor						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Come and see him right away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 see	cc
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 see	obj
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive	you not said here	him = he				away property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 2

Visit him soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Visit	obj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Visit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	imperative	you not said here	him = he				soon property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Come see me straight away, he had news

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Come	xcomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 see	obj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 see	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	advcl
9	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	see	infinitive	you not said here	me	away property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	have	past	he	news		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Bring the boy to the office now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bring	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 office	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 office	det
6	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bring	obl
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	imperative	you not said here	the boy		the office	now		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme to office=Destination

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