Test 10 · ★ · Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George…

Mum says, what did Emily do with his pictures?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mum, Emily · What happens: say, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 944 «Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George is confirmed, gets a hymn-book from Emily, and sends her pictures while she is ill» 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	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
6	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 pictures	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pictures	nmod:poss
10	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past · do-support	Emily					with Emily's pictures	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

tore them to bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 tore	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 bits	case
4	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 tore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past		them = they				to bits	tree rules

Option 2

tore them to bits and threw them in the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 tore	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 bits	case
4	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 tore	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 threw	cc
6	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 tore	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 threw	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past		them = they				to bits	tree rules
2	throw	past		bits = bit		the fire			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme in fire=Destination

Option 3

threw them away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 threw	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 threw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	past		them = they				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

locked them in a box and never looked again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 locked	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 box	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 box	det
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 locked	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 looked	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 looked	advmod
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 locked	conj
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 looked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past		them = they		a box			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	not look	past					again		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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