Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 61: Christ…
what did Ib tell Christina to do about the son?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ib · What happens: tell, do · To what, where: Christina · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 tell | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tell | xcomp |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 son | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 son | det |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · do-support | Ib | Christina | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ib not said here | about the son | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
marry the innkeeper's son
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | marry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 innkeeper | det |
| 3 | innkeeper | innkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 innkeeper | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 marry | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | imperative | you not said here | the innkeeper's son | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
Option 2
don't refuse the good fortune, he is kind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 refuse | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 refuse | advmod |
| 3 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fortune | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fortune | amod |
| 6 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 refuse | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 refuse | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kind | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 kind | cop |
| 10 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 refuse | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not refuse | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the good fortune | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | he | kind property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
don't refuse the good fortune
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 refuse | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 refuse | advmod |
| 3 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fortune | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fortune | amod |
| 6 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 refuse | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not refuse | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the good fortune | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme |
Option 4
just say yes to him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | just | just | ADV | _ | 2 say | advmod |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 say | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 say | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | him = he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent yes=Topic to he=Recipient |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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