Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 144:…

the mom said his story made her mouth water, lol?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mom, story · What happens: say, make · To what, where: mouth water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 933 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 144: the lost prince shelters in the Winds' cave and hears the North and West Winds tell their adventures» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mom	det
2	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 story	nmod:poss
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 water	nmod:poss
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 water	compound
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lol	punct
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 made	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the mom						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	past	his story	story's mouth water					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product

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

yup, she was super hungry for it after the long day in the cave

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hungry	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hungry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hungry	cop
5	super	super	ADV	_	6 hungry	advmod
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 yup	appos
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hungry	obl
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 day	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hungry	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 cave	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cave	det
15	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she				day	for yup; hungry, super property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yup, she was hungry for it and asked him to tell it again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hungry	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hungry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	cop
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hungry	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asked	cc
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tell	mark
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tell	obj
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	yup			for it; hungry property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	yup not said here	him = he			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	yup not said here	yup	again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 3

yup, she was sleepy then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sleepy	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sleepy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sleepy	cop
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 yup	appos
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sleepy	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yup, she was hungry for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hungry	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hungry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	cop
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 yup	appos
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hungry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					for yup; hungry property	tree rules

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