Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plan…
Why did the girl only nick one leaf, bro?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: nick · To what, where: one leaf
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 nick | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 nick | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 nick | advmod |
| 6 | nick | nick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 leaf | nummod |
| 8 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nick | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bro | punct |
| 10 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leaf | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 nick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past · do-support | one leaf and bro | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
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
Cos she didnt wanna break a flower that'd fade fast, so she just took one leaf
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 didnt | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 didnt | nsubj |
| 3 | didnt | didnt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 break | advcl |
| 4 | wanna | wanna | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 break | dep |
| 5 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flower | det |
| 7 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 break | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 fade | nsubj |
| 9 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fade | aux |
| 10 | fade | fade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 flower | acl:relcl |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 fade | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 took | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 took | advmod |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 break | conj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 leaf | nummod |
| 18 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | didnt | infinitive | she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | break | imperative | you not said here | a flower | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fade | would | a flower | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | past | she | one leaf | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme |
Option 2
Cos she reckoned it was too pretty to pick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 reckoned | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reckoned | nsubj |
| 3 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pretty | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pretty | cop |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 pretty | advmod |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reckoned | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 pick | mark |
| 9 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pretty | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | she | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | it | pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pick | to-infinitive | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Cos she didnt wanna break a flower that'd fade fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 didnt | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 didnt | nsubj |
| 3 | didnt | didnt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 break | advcl |
| 4 | wanna | wanna | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 break | dep |
| 5 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flower | det |
| 7 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 break | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 fade | nsubj |
| 9 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fade | aux |
| 10 | fade | fade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 flower | acl:relcl |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 fade | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | didnt | infinitive | she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | break | imperative | you not said here | a flower | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fade | would | a flower | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Cos she didnt wanna break a flower that'd fade fast and get in trouble with the mum
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 didnt | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 didnt | nsubj |
| 3 | didnt | didnt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 break | advcl |
| 4 | wanna | wanna | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 break | dep |
| 5 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flower | det |
| 7 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 break | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 fade | nsubj |
| 9 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fade | aux |
| 10 | fade | fade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 flower | acl:relcl |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 fade | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 get | cc |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fade | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 trouble | case |
| 15 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 mum | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mum | det |
| 18 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | didnt | infinitive | she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | break | imperative | you not said here | a flower | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fade | would | a flower | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | a flower not said here | trouble | with the mum | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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