Test 12 · ★ · Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George…

Ma, what did the porter's wife reckon about Emily?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ma, wife · What happens: do, reckon

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 porter	det
6	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 porter	case
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reckon	nsubj
9	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 Emily	case
11	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 reckon	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ma						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reckon	present	the porter's wife					about Emily	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

"They will send her away soon"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 send	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 send	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 send	aux
4	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 send	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 send	advmod
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 send	advmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 send	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away in a quote	future	They	her = she				away, soon property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

"They will not keep her with them"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keep	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 keep	advmod
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keep	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keep	obl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not keep in a quote	future	They	her = she				with them = they	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

"They say she must go to the country to get better"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 country	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 country	det
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	advcl
12	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 get	xcomp
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	They			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	must	she	the country		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location
3	get in a quote	to-infinitive	she not said here		good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

"They do not want her here"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 want	obj
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 want	advmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want in a quote	present · do-support	They	her = she		here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme

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