Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 67: Rudy learns Bab…

Honestly, why did Rudy decide to go to Interlaken?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rudy · What happens: decide, go · To what, where: Interlaken

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 856 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 67: Rudy learns Babette is away and climbs the mountains after 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	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	6 decide	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honestly	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 decide	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 decide	aux
5	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 decide	nsubj
6	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 decide	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Interlaken	case
10	Interlaken	Interlaken	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 decide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	past · do-support	Rudy					honestly property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rudy not said here			Interlaken			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to interlaken=Initial_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

He was bored

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To see her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		her = she					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 3

He hoped to meet the old hunter

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 hoped	nsubj
2	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 meet	mark
4	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hoped	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hunter	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hunter	amod
7	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meet	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past	He						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	meet not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the old hunter					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunter=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He wanted to see Babette there

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	Babette		there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer babette=Stimulus

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