Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 72: Rudy is jealous…
was Babette chuffed about making Rudy jealous or nah?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Babette · What happens: be, make · To what, where: Rudy
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 861 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 72: Rudy is jealous of the Englishman, Babette sends him away, and Rudy walks home alone over the mountains» 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chuffed | cop |
| 2 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chuffed | nsubj |
| 3 | chuffed | chuff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 5 making | mark |
| 5 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 chuffed | advcl |
| 6 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 making | obj |
| 7 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 making | xcomp |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 nah | cc |
| 9 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 jealous | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 chuffed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Babette | chuff property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | Babette not said here | Rudy | jealous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rudy=Product |
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
nah, she felt guilty and cried into her pillow, then felt better after she had been to the lake
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 felt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cried | cc |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 pillow | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 10 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 felt | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 felt | advmod |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 felt | xcomp |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 lake | case |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lake | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lake | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 lake | cop |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 lake | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lake | det |
| 21 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 felt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | she | guilty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | she not said here | her pillow | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into pillow=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | she not said here | then | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is | past · perfect | she | after the lake | tree rules |
Option 2
yeah, she was well pleased and laughed all the way to bed, but she wasn't going to tell anyone
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 pleased | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | cop |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 pleased | advmod |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 laughed | cc |
| 8 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | conj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 way | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laughed | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 way | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 going | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 going | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 going | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 going | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 going | advmod |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 pleased | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 tell | mark |
| 21 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 going | xcomp |
| 22 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 tell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | she not said here | all way | to bed | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | |||
| 3 | not go | past · progressive | she | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | she not said here | anyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, she was well pleased, it was a laugh for her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 pleased | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | cop |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 pleased | advmod |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 laugh | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 laugh | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 laugh | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 laugh | det |
| 11 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pleased | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 laugh | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | it | a laugh | for her = she | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, she was dead chuffed, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 chuffed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 chuffed | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 chuffed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chuffed | aux:pass |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chuffed | amod |
| 6 | chuffed | chuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 chuffed | punct |
| 8 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 6 chuffed | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuff | past · passive | she | tree rules |
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