Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home…

Did Babette talk loads?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Babette · What happens: talk · To what, where: loads

This is test 9 · ★ 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 talk	aux
2	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 talk	nsubj
3	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talk	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · do-support	Babette	loads					vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent load=Patient

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

nope, she stayed quiet, just giving shy looks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 giving	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 giving	advmod
8	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stayed	advcl
9	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 looks	amod
10	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 giving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	she					quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	gerund	she not said here	shy looks					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, she was dead quiet but her eyes said it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 quiet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quiet	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 quiet	amod
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	obj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					quiet property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	her eyes	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

yeah, she chatted nonstop about the mountains and the cats and the miller's soup and his cheese

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chatted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chatted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chatted	nsubj
4	chatted	chat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nonstop	nonstop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chatted	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 mountains	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mountains	det
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chatted	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cats	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cats	det
11	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mountains	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 soup	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 miller	det
14	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 soup	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 miller	case
16	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mountains	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cheese	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 cheese	nmod:poss
19	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 soup	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other	past	she	nonstop				about the mountains and the cats and the miller's soup and his cheese	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she was dead quiet the whole evening but her eyes said everything she wanted to say to Rudy

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 quiet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quiet	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 quiet	amod
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 evening	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 evening	amod
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quiet	obl:unmarked
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	conj
14	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 said	obj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wanted	nsubj
16	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 everything	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 Rudy	case
20	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			evening	quiet property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	her eyes	everything				tree rules
3	want	past	she					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive			Rudy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to rudy=Recipient

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