Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 74: Rudy and…

wait, what was the thing that ghosted Babette in her dream?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, thing, Babette · What happens: wait, be, ghost, dream · To what, where: thing, Babette, dream

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 863 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 74: Rudy and Babette near their wedding, then their boat drifts away» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	parataxis
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ghosted	nsubj
8	ghosted	ghost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	acl:relcl
9	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ghosted	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 dream	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dream	nmod:poss
12	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ghosted	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the thing		tree rules
3	ghost	past	the thing	Babette	Babette's dream	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location babette=Theme
4	dream		Babette			nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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

Babette's godmother, in a hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 godmother	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Babette	case
3	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hat	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hat	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hat	det
7	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 godmother	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Rudy, who was really just his hunting coat and hat hanging on the alpenstock

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 coat	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 coat	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 coat	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	9 coat	advmod
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 coat	advmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 coat	nmod:poss
8	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coat	compound
9	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rudy	appos
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hat	cc
11	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coat	conj
12	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 hat	acl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 alpenstock	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 alpenstock	det
15	alpenstock	alpenstock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hanging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Rudy	Rudy's hunting coat and hat					tree rules
2	hang	gerund	hat not said here			the alpenstock			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on alpenstock=Location

Option 3

Rudy, who turned out to be nothing but his coat and hat and a stick, all along

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 turned	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	8 nothing	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 nothing	cop
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 turned	xcomp
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 coat	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 coat	nmod:poss
11	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nothing	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hat	cc
13	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coat	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stick	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stick	det
16	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nothing	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 along	punct
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 along	advmod
19	along	along	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn out	past	Rudy					along property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive	Rudy not said here	nothing					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Rudy, who was just his coat and hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 coat	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 coat	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 coat	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 coat	advmod
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 coat	nmod:poss
7	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rudy	appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hat	cc
9	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Rudy	Rudy's coat and hat					tree rules

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