Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives…

nah, why can't Anna's old doll act?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Anna · What happens: act

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 914 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives, and the nightingale makes a promise» 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	nah	nah	INTJ	_	10 act	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 act	advmod
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 act	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 act	advmod
6	Anna	Anna	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 act	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Anna	case
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 act	amod
9	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 act	compound
10	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 act	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act		Anna						nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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

She's broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 broken	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 broken	aux:pass
3	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present · passive		She					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She's a total fright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fright	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fright	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fright	det
4	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fright	amod
5	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	She	a total fright					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She's too old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 old	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					old property	tree rules

Option 4

Her nose fell off lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nose	nmod:poss
2	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 fell	compound:prt
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 fell	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	Her nose						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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