Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 118: the Moon sh…
was the girl's doll like a chatty mate or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: doll
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 907 «Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 118: the Moon shows a guilty girl, a boy at a spinning wheel, a mother's belief, and a chimney sweep's first sunrise» 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 doll | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doll | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 girl | case |
| 5 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 mate | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mate | det |
| 8 | chatty | chatty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mate | amod |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doll | nmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 what | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 mate | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 doll | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the girl's doll | like a chatty mate | 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
nah, it just seemed to blink its eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 seemed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 seemed | advmod |
| 5 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 blink | mark |
| 7 | blink | blink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seemed | xcomp |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 blink | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | blink | to-infinitive | its eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
Option 2
nah, the doll just seemed to shake its head and smile at her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 seemed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doll | det |
| 4 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seemed | nsubj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 seemed | advmod |
| 6 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 shake | mark |
| 8 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seemed | xcomp |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shake | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 smile | cc |
| 12 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 shake | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 smile | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the doll | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | shake | to-infinitive | the doll not said here | doll's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 3 | smile | infinitive | the doll not said here | at her = she | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
nah, the doll just seemed to shake its head, and then the girl ran off
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 seemed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doll | det |
| 4 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seemed | nsubj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 seemed | advmod |
| 6 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 shake | mark |
| 8 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seemed | xcomp |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shake | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 ran | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seemed | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 ran | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the doll | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | shake | to-infinitive | the doll not said here | doll's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 3 | run off | past | the girl | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
nah, the doll just seemed to shake its head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 seemed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doll | det |
| 4 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seemed | nsubj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 seemed | advmod |
| 6 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 shake | mark |
| 8 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seemed | xcomp |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shake | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the doll | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | shake | to-infinitive | the doll not said here | doll's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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