Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 102: Hel…

Why was Helga all calm at sunset, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Helga · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: Helga

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 891 «Andersen's Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 102: Helga grows wild, and the Vikings bring home a Christian priest.» 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=Int	3 Helga	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Helga	cop
3	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 innit	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 calm	det
5	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Helga	amod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 sunset	case
7	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 calm	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Helga	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Helga					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	Helga						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

Cos she was sad and missed her mum, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 sad	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sad	cop
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 missed	cc
6	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sad	conj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 missed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sad	punct
10	innit	innit	INTJ	_	4 sad	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					sad property	tree rules
2	miss	past	she not said here	her mum					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mum=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cos the twilight turned her back into a frog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 turned	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 twilight	det
3	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 frog	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 frog	det
9	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	past	the twilight	her = she				into a frog	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

Cos she was tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Cos it got dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 got	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	it					dark property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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