Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 73: Rudy clim…

Why's Babette sat crying at the mill?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Babette · What happens: be, sit, cry · To what, where: mill

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 862 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 73: Rudy climbs the mountain, meets the Ice Maiden, and loses his ring» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sat	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 sat	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 mill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mill	det
8	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crying	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present			why property	tree rules
2	sit	past	Babette			tree rules
3	cry speech: express	gerund	Babette not said here	the mill		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at mill=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

Cos Rudy's off up the mountain, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	Cos	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mountain	nmod:poss
2	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cos	flat
3	's	's	PART	_	1 Cos	case
4	off	off	ADV	_	7 mountain	advmod
5	up	up	ADP	_	7 mountain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountain	det
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mountain	vocative

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cos Rudy's been ghosting her six days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	Cos	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ghosting	nsubj
2	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cos	flat
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ghosting	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 ghosting	aux
5	ghosting	ghost	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 days	nmod:poss
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ghosting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ghost	present · progressive	Cos				day		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Cos her godmother's been nagging her, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 nagging	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 godmother	nmod:poss
3	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nagging	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 nagging	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 nagging	aux
6	nagging	nag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nagging	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nagging	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nag	present · progressive	her godmother	her = she				mate vocative	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Cos the cats said she's going to fall for a red-whiskered bloke down by the stream, innit

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 said	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cats	det
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 going	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fall	mark
9	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 going	xcomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	15 bloke	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bloke	det
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 whiskered	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 red	punct
14	whiskered	whisker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 bloke	amod
15	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fall	obl
16	down	down	ADP	_	9 fall	compound:prt
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 stream	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stream	det
19	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fall	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 innit	punct
21	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stream	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the cats		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	present · progressive	she		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fall down	to-infinitive	she not said here	for a whiskered bloke; by the stream and innit	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by stream=Location
4	whisker	participle			tree rules

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