Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Rudy, part 66: an avalanche kills the un…

why did the girls not say "save yourselves from rudy"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girls · What happens: do, not say, save · To what, where: yourselves, rudy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girls	det
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 save	punct
8	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
9	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 save	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 rudy	case
11	rudy	rudy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 save	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 save	punct
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	not say speech: assert	present	the girls			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	save in a quote	infinitive		yourselves	rudy	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme from rudy=Source

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

he was cute

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 cute	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cute	cop
3	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

cause he's cute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cute	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cute	cop
4	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	present	he					cute property	tree rules

Option 3

cause he was handsome then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 handsome	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 handsome	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 handsome	cop
4	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 handsome	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cause he was too cute to fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cute	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cute	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cute	aux
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 cute	advmod
5	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fear	mark
7	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cute	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	to-infinitive							vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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