Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1:…

why's the stork mom so mad at the dad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stork mom · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 887 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1: twelve months arrive by coach, and storks gossip about a lost swan-princess» 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=Rel	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mom	det
4	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mom	compound
5	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 why	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 mad	advmod
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mom	amod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 dad	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dad	det
10	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mad	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the stork mom					why 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

She's hatching eggs and can't handle the drama, the dad storks keep flying off to the Marsh King's moor, so annoying

The tree, 24 words

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	3 hatching	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hatching	aux
3	hatching	hatch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hatching	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 handle	cc
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 handle	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 handle	advmod
8	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hatching	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 drama	det
10	drama	drama	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handle	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 keep	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 storks	det
13	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 storks	compound
14	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 keep	nsubj
15	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 drama	conj
16	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 keep	xcomp
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 flying	compound:prt
18	to	to	ADP	_	23 moor	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 King	det
20	Marsh	Marsh	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 King	compound
21	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 moor	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 King	case
23	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flying	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 annoying	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 annoying	advmod
26	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hatching	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hatch	present · progressive	She	eggs		vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=Product
2	not handle	can	She not said here	the drama		vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drama=Theme
3	keep	present	the dad storks			tree rules
4	fly off	gerund	the dad storks not said here		to the Marsh King's moor result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to moor=Result

Option 2

She's hatching eggs and can't handle the drama, he came back late with mud all over him, again

The tree, 20 words

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	3 hatching	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hatching	aux
3	hatching	hatch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hatching	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 handle	cc
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 handle	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 handle	advmod
8	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hatching	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 drama	det
10	drama	drama	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handle	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hatching	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	15 late	advmod
15	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 came	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 mud	case
17	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
18	all	all	ADV	_	20 him	advmod
19	over	over	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 again	punct
22	again	again	ADV	_	3 hatching	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	present · progressive	She	eggs	again		vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=Product
2	not handle	can	She not said here	the drama			vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drama=Theme
3	come back	past	he			with mud; over him = he; late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over he=Initial_Location

Option 3

He kept bringing home wet reeds and frogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kept	xcomp
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 bringing	advmod
5	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reeds	amod
6	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bringing	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 frogs	cc
8	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reeds	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	He						tree rules
2	bring	gerund	He not said here	wet reeds and frogs				home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent reed=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She's hatching eggs and can't handle the drama

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	3 hatching	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hatching	aux
3	hatching	hatch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hatching	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 handle	cc
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 handle	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 handle	advmod
8	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hatching	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 drama	det
10	drama	drama	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handle	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	present · progressive	She	eggs					vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=Product
2	not handle	can	She not said here	the drama					vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drama=Theme

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