Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home…

Did Rudy let the maiden help him up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rudy, maiden · What happens: let, help up · To what, where: Rudy

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 858 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home over the mountains, meets the strange maiden, then visits Babette at the mill» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	aux
2	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maiden	det
5	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	nsubj
6	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 let	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 help	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 help	compound:prt
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · do-support	Rudy						tree rules
2	help up	present	the maiden		Rudy				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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 · ✓ the right answer

no way, he said no thanks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 thanks	det
7	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	no way					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic

Option 2

no way, he said no thanks and then climbed the whole rock face alone in the rain

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 thanks	det
7	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 climbed	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 climbed	advmod
10	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 face	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 face	amod
13	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 face	compound
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 climbed	obj
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 climbed	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 rain	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rain	det
18	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 climbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	no way					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic
2	climb	past	he not said here	the whole rock face		the rain	then	alone property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location face=Theme

Option 3

yeah, he took it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	it					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

yeah at first, but then he totally changed his mind and asked her to come along too

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 changed	discourse
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 first	case
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 changed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 changed	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 changed	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 changed	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 changed	nsubj
8	totally	totally	ADV	_	9 changed	advmod
9	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mind	nmod:poss
11	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 changed	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 asked	cc
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 changed	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	iobj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 come	mark
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	xcomp
17	along	along	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
18	too	too	ADV	_	16 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	he	his mind		then	totally property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	he not said here		her = she			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come along not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here				along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	mind		his = he					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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