Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's novels, George and Emily, part 156: George draw…

Was the Professor well impressed with George, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Professor · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 945 «Andersen's novels, George and Emily, part 156: George draws Emily's castle and leaves for Rome» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 impressed	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Professor	det
3	Professor	Professor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 impressed	nsubj
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 impressed	advmod
5	impressed	impressed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 George	case
7	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 impressed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 impressed	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 impressed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Professor					with George; impressed, well property	tree rules

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

Yeah, he told him to visit Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 visit	mark
7	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 visit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	visit not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	Rome					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rome=Co-Agent

Option 2

Yeah, he told him to come once a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 come	mark
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 come	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 week	det
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 once	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he was well chuffed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 chuffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chuffed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chuffed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chuffed	aux:pass
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 chuffed	advmod
6	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		he				well property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he told him to come twice a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 come	mark
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 come	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 week	det
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here				week	twice property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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