Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails f…

Who got the lady-snail for the lad, like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: get · To what, where: lady snail

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snail	det
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snail	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 lady	punct
6	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 lad	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lad	det
9	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	2 got	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past		the lady snail				for the lad	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent snail=Theme for lad=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

The glow-worms found her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 worms	det
2	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worms	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 glow	punct
4	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	the glow worms	her = she					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

Option 2

A band of birds carried her over the wall to the castle lawn in the morning

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 band	det
2	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 birds	case
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 band	nmod
5	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carried	obj
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 wall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wall	det
9	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 lawn	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lawn	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lawn	compound
13	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 morning	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 morning	det
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	a band of birds	her = she		the wall	morning	to the castle lawn	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to lawn=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The gnats fetched her for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gnats	det
2	gnats	gnat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fetched	nsubj
3	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fetched	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fetched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	past	the gnats	her = she				for him = he	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for he=Beneficiary

Option 4

The white gnats flew all the way to the gooseberry-bush and brought her to the wedding

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gnats	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gnats	amod
3	gnats	gnat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 way	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 bush	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bush	det
10	gooseberry	gooseberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bush	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 gooseberry	punct
12	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 brought	cc
14	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 brought	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 wedding	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wedding	det
18	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the white gnats	all way		the gooseberry bush			vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to bush=Destination
2	bring	past	the white gnats not said here	her = she		the wedding			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to wedding=Destination

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