Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Pea Blossom: a pea grows by the sick…

wait, the inkstand and the pen were arguing, who was winning?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, pen · What happens: wait, argue, win · To what, where: inkstand

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 937 «Andersen's Tales, The Pea Blossom: a pea grows by the sick girl's window and gives her hope» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 inkstand	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 inkstand	det
4	inkstand	inkstand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 arguing	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pen	det
7	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arguing	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 arguing	aux
9	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 wait	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 winning	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 winning	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 winning	aux
13	winning	win	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 arguing	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	the inkstand	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	argue speech: disagree	past · progressive	the pen		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	win	past · progressive			vn succeed-74-2 «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 · ✓ the right answer

neither, both felt they had won

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	neither	neither	ADV	_	4 felt	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct
3	both	both	CCONJ	_	4 felt	cc:preconj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 won	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 won	aux
7	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 felt	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past						neither property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	win	past · perfect	they						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

the inkstand, because it was older

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 inkstand	det
2	inkstand	inkstand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 older	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 older	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 older	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 older	cop
7	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 inkstand	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	inkstand	the inkstand not said here				old property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the pen won

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pen	det
2	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	nsubj
3	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	the pen						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the inkstand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 inkstand	det
2	inkstand	inkstand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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