Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Rudy, part 66: an avalanche kills the un…

what did annette spill that she should have kept quiet?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: annette · What happens: spill, keep

This is test 9 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 spill	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spill	aux
3	annette	annette	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spill	nsubj
4	spill	spill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 kept	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kept	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 kept	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 kept	aux
9	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 spill	advcl
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kept	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 spill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	past · do-support	annette						vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme
2	keep	should · perfect	annette					quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

that rudy kissed her in the dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 rudy	det
2	rudy	rudy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kissed	nsubj
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kissed	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 dance	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dance	det
7	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kissed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	that rudy	her = she		the dance			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

that rudy had a girl already

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 rudy	det
2	rudy	rudy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	already	already	ADV	_	3 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	that rudy	a girl					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient

Option 3

that rudy likes the goat girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 rudy	det
2	rudy	rudy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 likes	nsubj
3	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
5	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 girl	compound
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 likes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	that rudy	the goat girl					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot girl=Theme

Option 4

that rudy kissed her in the dance at the inn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 rudy	det
2	rudy	rudy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kissed	nsubj
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kissed	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 dance	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dance	det
7	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kissed	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 inn	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 inn	det
10	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kissed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	that rudy	her = she		the dance		at the inn	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent

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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