Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 61: Christ…
did they decide to get married right away?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: decide, marry
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 850 «Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 61: Christina goes into service, and Ib cannot write to her» 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 decide | aux |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 decide | nsubj |
| 3 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 married | mark |
| 5 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 married | aux:pass |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 decide | xcomp |
| 7 | right | right | ADV | _ | 8 away | advmod |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 married | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 decide | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past · do-support | they | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | they not said here | away property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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
yes, they got married
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 married | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 married | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | aux:pass |
| 5 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | they | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
nah, they agreed to wait a bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 agreed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 wait | mark |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 agreed | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wait | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | they | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wait not said to happen | to-infinitive | they not said here | a bit | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
nah, they agreed to wait a bit longer before deciding anything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 agreed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 wait | mark |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 agreed | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 longer | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 wait | advmod |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 deciding | mark |
| 11 | deciding | decide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 wait | advcl |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 deciding | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | they | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wait not said to happen | to-infinitive | they not said here | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | decide | gerund | they not said here | anything | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |
Option 4
no, they decided to wait until Ib had saved enough money for a house
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 decided | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 decided | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 decided | nsubj |
| 4 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 wait | mark |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 decided | xcomp |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 saved | mark |
| 8 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 saved | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saved | aux |
| 10 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 wait | advcl |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 money | amod |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saved | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | they | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wait not said to happen | to-infinitive | they not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | save | past · perfect | Ib | enough money | for a house | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme for house=Source |
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