Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mot…

Was the sparrow-mother's bit about peacocks "the beautiful", or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 910 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mother is pecked to death, and her children burn their own nest» 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	12 beautiful	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mother	det
3	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mother	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 sparrow	punct
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 mother	case
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beautiful	obl
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 peacocks	case
9	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 beautiful	obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 peacocks	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beautiful	det
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 beautiful	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nah	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 nah	cc
16	nah	nah	INTJ	_	12 beautiful	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 beautiful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past						about peacocks; the sparrow mother's bit obl; beautiful 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

Nah, she said the nightingale was the beautiful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nightingale	det
6	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beautiful	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 beautiful	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beautiful	det
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the nightingale					beautiful property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, she called the roses beautiful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 roses	det
6	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	obj
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	she	the roses				beautiful property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rose=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she called the peacocks "the beautiful"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 peacocks	det
6	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 beautiful	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beautiful	det
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 called	parataxis
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 beautiful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	she	the peacocks					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, she called the peacocks "the beautiful", and then the roses agreed with her, innit

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 peacocks	det
6	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 beautiful	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beautiful	det
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 peacocks	amod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 beautiful	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 agreed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 agreed	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 agreed	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 roses	det
15	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 agreed	nsubj
16	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 agreed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 innit	punct
20	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	she	the peacocks				innit obl	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent peacock=Recipient
2	agree speech: agree	past	the roses				then	with her = she	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with she=Co-Agent

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