Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 71: Rudy captures t…

Did the miller ride along with Rudy and Babette?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: miller · What happens: ride along

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 860 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 71: Rudy captures the eaglet and brings it to the mill, while the Ice Maiden mocks the railway» 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	4 ride	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 miller	det
3	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ride	nsubj
4	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	along	along	ADV	_	4 ride	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 Rudy	case
7	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ride	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Babette	cc
9	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Rudy	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ride	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride along	past · do-support	the miller					with Rudy and Babette; along property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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

Yeah, he rode along and said he was just like the luggage, which made Babette laugh so hard she nearly fell.

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 rode	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rode	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	along	along	ADV	_	4 rode	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rode	conj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 luggage	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 luggage	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 luggage	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 luggage	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 luggage	det
13	luggage	luggage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 made	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 made	nsubj
16	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 luggage	acl:relcl
17	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 made	obj
18	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 made	xcomp
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 hard	advmod
20	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 made	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fell	nsubj
22	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	23 fell	advmod
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hard	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rode	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ride along	past	he		along property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	he not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	he		like the luggage	tree rules
4	make	past	the luggage	Babette	hard property	tree rules
5	laugh	infinitive	Babette not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fall	past	Babette		nearly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he sat with the bags up front.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 bags	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bags	det
7	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sat	obl
8	up	up	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	he					with the bags; up front	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, he walked behind the boat.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 walked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 boat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boat	det
7	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	he			the boat			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind boat=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he said he was like the luggage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 luggage	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 luggage	cop
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 luggage	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 luggage	det
9	luggage	luggage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					like the luggage	tree rules

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