Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Ida's Flowers, part 85: the…

Oi, what was Sophy like when the rough doll asked her to dance?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rough doll · What happens: be, ask, dance · To what, where: Sophy, her

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 874 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Ida's Flowers, part 85: the flowers dance at night while Sophy the doll gives up her bed» 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	Oi	oi	INTJ	_	5 Sophy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 Sophy	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Sophy	cop
5	Sophy	sophy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	11 asked	mark
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 asked	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 doll	det
9	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 doll	amod
10	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Sophy	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 dance	mark
14	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Sophy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past		Sophy		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	the rough doll		her = she	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	dance not said to happen	to-infinitive	the rough doll not said here			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

she turned her back on the doll and left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 back	nmod:poss
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 doll	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 doll	det
7	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 left	cc
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 doll	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	she	her back		the doll			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
2	leave	participle	she not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she shook her head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shook	nsubj
2	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	she	her head					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she turned her back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 back	nmod:poss
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	she	her back					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme

Option 4

she turned her back and walked away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 back	nmod:poss
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 walked	cc
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	she	her back					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
2	walk away	past	she not said here					away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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