Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

no way, the swan girls said a hunter shot their sister, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: swan girls, hunter · What happens: say, shoot · To what, where: way, sister · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 890 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 101: the storks plan to hide the swan feathers» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girls	det
5	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 girls	compound
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hunter	det
9	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shot	nsubj
10	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shot	iobj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	10 shot	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the swan girls	no way					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	shoot	past	a hunter		girls's sister				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=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 · ✓ the right answer

yep, with an arrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 arrow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 arrow	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 arrow	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 arrow	det
5	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

yep, with a poisoned arrow and then she sank in the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 arrow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 arrow	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 arrow	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 arrow	det
5	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 arrow	amod
6	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sank	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 sank	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sank	nsubj
10	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 arrow	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 lake	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lake	det
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sink	past	she			the lake	then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

yep, with a spear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 spear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spear	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 spear	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spear	det
5	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yep, a hunter shot her with an arrow from the reeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 shot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hunter	det
4	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shot	nsubj
5	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shot	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 arrow	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 arrow	det
9	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shot	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 reeds	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 reeds	det
12	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	a hunter	her = she		the reeds		with a arrow	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme from reed=Initial_Location

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