Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mot…

Lol, what did the babies yell when they saw her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: babies · What happens: yell, see · To what, where: her

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 yell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 yell	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 yell	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 yell	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 babies	det
6	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 yell	nsubj
7	yell	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 saw	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 yell	advcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 yell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past · do-support	the babies						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	see	past	babies = baby	her = she					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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

"Lovely, lovely!" and "Wow!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lovely	punct
2	Lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lovely	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Lovely	punct
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 lovely	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lovely	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Wow	cc
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Wow	punct
9	Wow	wow	INTJ	_	4 lovely	parataxis
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 lovely	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lovely	punct

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

Option 2

"Oh, a bird!" and "Mum's gone pretty!"

The tree, 8 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 bird	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gone	cc
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct
10	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	cop
12	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	12 gone	advmod
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	a bird					gone, pretty property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

"Look at her!" and "That's the beautiful!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Look	obl
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 beautiful	cc
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 beautiful	punct
9	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 beautiful	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 beautiful	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beautiful	det
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Look	conj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	imperative	you not said here					at her = she	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	That					beautiful property	tree rules

Option 4

"Mum!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Mum	punct
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Mum	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Mum	punct

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

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