Test 11 · ★ · Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George…

Bro, what stopped George from going to the funeral psalms?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: stop, go · To what, where: George, funeral psalms

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	obj
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	7 going	mark
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stopped	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 psalms	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 psalms	det
10	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 psalms	compound
11	psalms	psalm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 going	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	Bro	George					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality george=Eventuality
2	go	gerund	Bro not said here			the funeral psalms			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to psalm=Initial_Location

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

he didn't want to think on death or his dead father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 think	mark
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 death	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 think	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 father	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 father	amod
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 death	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	think speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					on death or his dead father	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on death=Topic

Option 2

he could not read the print

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 read	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 read	advmod
4	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 print	det
6	print	print	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not read	could	he	the print					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent print=Topic

Option 3

he felt the hymns were only for the old and sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hymns	det
4	hymns	hymn	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 old	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 old	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 old	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 old	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 old	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sick	cc
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 old	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	feel	past	he		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	the hymns	old property	tree rules
3	be		the hymns not said here		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he didn't want to think on death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 think	mark
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 death	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 think	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	think speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					on death	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on death=Topic

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