Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Rudy, part 66: an avalanche kills the un…

lol what was saperli trying to send to christ?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: saperli · What happens: be, try, send · To what, where: saperli, christ

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 855 «Andersen's Tales, Rudy, part 66: an avalanche kills the uncle, and Rudy becomes the family's hunter and guide» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 saperli	discourse
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 saperli	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saperli	cop
4	saperli	saperli	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 saperli	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 send	mark
7	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trying	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 christ	case
9	christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 send	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 saperli	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past		saperli		tree rules
2	try	gerund	saperli not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	send not said to happen	to-infinitive	saperli not said here		christ	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to christ=Destination

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

a plea to end his own life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plea	det
2	plea	plea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 end	mark
4	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 plea	acl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 life	amod
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	to-infinitive		his own life					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality life=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a letter begging for his own death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 letter	det
2	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	begging	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 letter	acl
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 death	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 death	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 death	amod
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	gerund	a letter not said here					for his own death	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for death=Topic
2	die		his = he						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

a long letter begging God to let him die in place of the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 letter	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 letter	amod
3	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	begging	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 letter	acl
5	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 begging	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 let	mark
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begging	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 place	case
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 die	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 boy	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 place	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	gerund	a long letter not said here		God		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent god=Recipient clause=Topic
2	let not said to happen	to-infinitive	a long letter not said here	God			tree rules
3	die	infinitive	God not said here			in place of the boy	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in place=Attribute

Option 4

a note asking for his death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 note	det
2	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 note	acl
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 death	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 death	nmod:poss
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund	a note not said here					for his death	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	die		his = he						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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