Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 61: Christ…

why couldn't Ib write the letter at the end?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ib · What happens: not write · To what, where: letter, end

This is test 9 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 write	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 write	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 write	advmod
4	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 write	nsubj
5	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 letter	det
7	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 write	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 write	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 write	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not write	could	Ib	the letter			at the end		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme

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 right answer

he just couldn't get on at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 get	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 get	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get on	could	he			all			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

he lost his pen somewhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pen	nmod:poss
4	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
5	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 lost	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	he	his pen				somewhere property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he was busy all summer with the sheep and the harvest fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 busy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 busy	cop
3	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 summer	det
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 busy	obl:unmarked
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 sheep	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sheep	det
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 busy	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fields	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fields	det
11	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fields	compound
12	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sheep	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				summer	with the sheep and the harvest fields; busy property	tree rules

Option 4

he could not find the right words to say how he felt, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 find	advmod
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 words	det
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 say	mark
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 find	advcl
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 felt	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 felt	nsubj
12	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 say	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 honestly	punct
14	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	4 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not find	could	he	the right words	honestly property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	he not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	feel	past	he			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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