Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bachelor's Nightcap: old Anthony die…

Did Anthony ever marry, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Anthony · What happens: do, marry · To what, where: Anthony

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 918 «Andersen's Tales, The Bachelor's Nightcap: old Anthony dies alone, and his tears are found in a nightcap» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 marry	advmod
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Anthony	acl:relcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cap	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 cap	det
7	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Anthony	parataxis
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Anthony					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anthony=Eventuality
2	marry	infinitive	Anthony not said here				ever		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

Nope, he was widowed twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 widowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 widowed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 widowed	aux:pass
5	widowed	widow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 widowed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	widow	past · passive		he				twice property	vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, he never married, but he loved a woman in the village for many years

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 married	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 married	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 married	advmod
5	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 loved	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 loved	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 loved	nsubj
9	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 married	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 woman	det
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loved	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 village	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 village	det
14	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loved	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 years	case
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 years	amod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 loved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not marry	past	he						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	love	past	he	a woman		the village	year		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, never, that was the rule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	8 rule	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 rule	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 never	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 rule	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rule	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rule	det
8	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	that	the rule					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, he married Molly after the merchant of Bremen released him from his promise

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 married	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 married	nsubj
4	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 married	obj
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 released	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 merchant	det
8	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 released	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Bremen	case
10	Bremen	Bremen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 merchant	nmod
11	released	release	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 married	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 released	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 promise	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 promise	nmod:poss
15	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 released	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	marry	past	he	Molly		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent molly=Patient
2	release	past	the merchant of Bremen	Molly	merchant's promise	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer he=Source
3	promise		merchant			nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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