Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails f…

Was the girl by the tan-yard gutted, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: gut · To what, where: girl

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 846 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails find a wife for their adopted son» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gutted	aux:pass
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gutted	nsubj:pass
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 yard	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 yard	det
6	tan	tan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yard	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 tan	punct
8	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 girl	nmod
9	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gutted	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 gutted	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		the girl by the tan yard					vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

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

Nah, she got in for free but then cried because the grave was too sad

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 free	case
7	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	obl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 cried	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 cried	advmod
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 sad	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grave	det
13	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sad	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sad	cop
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 sad	advmod
16	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cried	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	get in	past	she		for free	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for free=Source
2	cry speech: express	past	she not said here	then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the grave		sad property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, she lost a button and cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 button	det
6	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cried	cc
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	she	a button					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	past	she not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, she just sat there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	she			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she had no button so she cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	advcl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 button	det
6	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 cried	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	no button					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	she						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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