Test 12 · ★ · Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, part 63: Ib is happy an…

was Rudy's mom alive when he fell in snow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mom · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: mom, snow

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 852 «Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, part 63: Ib is happy and prosperous, and the story turns to Switzerland and the boy Rudy» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mom	cop
2	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mom	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Rudy	case
4	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	nsubj
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mom	amod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 fell	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 snow	case
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Rudy's mom					tree rules
2	fall	past	Rudy's mom			snow			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in snow=Location

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, she lived in Valais

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Valais	case
6	Valais	Valais	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	she			Valais			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valais=Location

Option 2

nope, she was gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 gone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	cop
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

nah, she was dead by then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 then	case
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 dead	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she wrote him letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wrote	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wrote	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrote	nsubj
4	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrote	obj
6	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrote	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	she	letters	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient letter=Topic

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