Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Grave-Stone, part 131: the old g…

Lol, was the grandpa dude sad about his wife?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: grandpa dude

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 920 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Grave-Stone, part 131: the old grave-stone is remembered, and a new tale begins with an old house and a leaking dragon gutter» 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	_	6 dude	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dude	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dude	det
5	grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dude	compound
6	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dude	amod
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sad	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the grandpa dude					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

Yeah, he cried a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	he	a lot					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic

Option 2

Yes, he was very sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 sad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sad	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 sad	advmod
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					sad property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he got all teary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 teary	advmod
6	teary	teary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he					teary property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Yeah, he sobbed by the bench for ages under the linden tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sobbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sobbed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sobbed	nsubj
4	sobbed	sob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 bench	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bench	det
7	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sobbed	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 ages	case
9	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sobbed	obl
10	under	under	ADP	_	13 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
12	linden	linden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tree	compound
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sobbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sob	participle	he			the linden tree	for ages	by the bench	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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