Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plan…

Wait, so the young snails reckoned everyone was dead, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, young snails, everyone · What happens: wait, reckon, be

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 847 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plant is lost and a king grieves» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reckoned	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 reckoned	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snails	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 snails	amod
6	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reckoned	nsubj
7	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 dead	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dead	cop
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reckoned	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reckoned	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 Wait	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reckon	past	the young snails		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	everyone	dead 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

Nah, cos they were all hidden away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 hidden	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	7 hidden	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hidden	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hidden	aux:pass
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 hidden	advmod
7	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 hidden	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide away	past · passive		they				all, away property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, cos nobody ever boiled them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 boiled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boiled	punct
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 boiled	mark
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 boiled	nsubj
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 boiled	advmod
6	boiled	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 boiled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	past	nobody	them = they			ever		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, they were dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Yeah, cos nobody ever fed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 fed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fed	punct
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 fed	mark
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 fed	nsubj
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 fed	advmod
6	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	nobody	them = they			ever		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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