Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid: the mermaid re…

bro, why was she dancing so hard if her feet were killing her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, feet · What happens: dance, kill · To what, where: her

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 881 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid: the mermaid refuses the knife and rises among the daughters of the air» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dancing	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 dancing	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dancing	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dancing	nsubj
6	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 hard	advmod
8	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 dancing	advmod
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 killing	mark
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feet	nmod:poss
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 killing	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 killing	aux
13	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 dancing	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 killing	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dancing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past · progressive	she					bro vocative; hard property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kill a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	her feet	her = she					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 · ← Mova's choice

Cos she was happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 happy	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happy	cop
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					happy property	tree rules

Option 2

Cos she wanted him to love her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 wanted	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 love	mark
6	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	him = he					tree rules
2	love not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here	her = she					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cos it was her last night with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 night	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 night	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 night	cop
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 night	nmod:poss
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 night	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it				cos her last night	with him = he	tree rules

Option 4

Cos she was trying to impress him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 trying	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 impress	mark
6	impress	impress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 impress	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	she						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	impress not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	him = he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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