Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Elder-Tree Mother, part 82: Little…

Did the wife cry about the sailor being away, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: cry, be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 871 «Fairy Tales, The Little Elder-Tree Mother, part 82: Little Claus tricks Great Claus into the river, and an old man begins a story from the teapot» 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 cry	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cry	nsubj
4	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 sailor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sailor	det
7	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 away	obl
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 away	cop
9	away	away	ADV	_	4 cry	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nah	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 cry	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · do-support	the wife						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund						about the sailor; away property	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she never cried about anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 cried	advmod
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 anything	case
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 cried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cry speech: express	past	she					about anything	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about anything=Topic

Option 2

Nah, she was just happy to be alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 happy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 happy	advmod
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 alone	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 alone	cop
9	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 happy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					happy property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	she not said here					alone property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, she cried cos he took the car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	7 took	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 took	nsubj
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 car	det
9	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	she						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	he	the car					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she thought he'd drowned at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	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	7 drowned	nsubj:pass
6	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drowned	aux
7	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thought	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 sea	case
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drowned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	drown	past · perfect · passive		he		sea			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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