Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death s…

what did the doll Bertha say she hated doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bertha · What happens: do, say, hate · To what, where: doll · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 928 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death shows Hjalmar how he sorts the riders by their mark-books» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doll	det
4	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	Bertha	Bertha	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 doll	acl:relcl
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hated	nsubj
8	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 hated	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the doll	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doll=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Bertha	the doll not said here	tree rules
3	hate	past	Bertha		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do not said to happen	gerund	Bertha not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

going over mountains in the cold, with no coat or warm shoes at all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	3 mountains	case
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 going	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cold	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cold	det
6	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 going	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 coat	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 coat	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 coat	det
10	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 going	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 shoes	cc
12	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shoes	amod
13	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 coat	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund				mountains		in the cold; with no coat or warm shoes; at all	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Initial_Location

Option 2

walking in the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 rain	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rain	det
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund				the rain			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rain=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

going over mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	3 mountains	case
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund				mountains			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Initial_Location

Option 4

going over mountains and across the high bridges of the northern valleys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	3 mountains	case
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 going	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bridges	cc
5	across	across	ADP	_	8 bridges	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bridges	det
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bridges	amod
8	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mountains	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 valleys	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 valleys	det
11	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 valleys	amod
12	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bridges	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund				mountains and the high bridges of the northern valleys			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Initial_Location

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