Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare…

So the interest was twenty dollars, and the seat was for her?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: interest, seat · What happens: be · To what, where: twenty dollars

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 932 «Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare, and a legacy» 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 dollars	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 interest	det
3	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dollars	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dollars	cop
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 dollars	nummod
6	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 her	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 her	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 seat	det
10	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 her	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 her	cop
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dollars	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dollars	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the interest	twenty dollars					tree rules
2	is	past	the seat	twenty dollars not said here				for her = she	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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, a spinster gets that seat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 gets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gets	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spinster	det
4	spinster	spinster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	nsubj
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 seat	det
7	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	a spinster	that seat					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seat=Stimulus

Option 2

nah, a child does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 does	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	nsubj
5	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	a child						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, a married man gets it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 gets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	married	married	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	nsubj
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	a married man	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

yeah, a single lady gets that seat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 gets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gets	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lady	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	nsubj
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 seat	det
8	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	a single lady	that seat					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seat=Stimulus

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