Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes…

What did the lady say to Emily when she was crying?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lady · What happens: say, cry · To what, where: Emily · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 946 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes back, asks for Emily's hand, and is refused» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Emily	case
7	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 crying	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 crying	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 crying	aux
11	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 say	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the lady		Emily				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to emily=Recipient
2	cry speech: express	past · progressive	lady						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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

"Weep on, Emily"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Weep	punct
2	Weep	weep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 Weep	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Emily	punct
5	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Weep	vocative
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Weep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep on in a quote	imperative	you not said here					Emily vocative	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

"Hush, my child"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct
2	Hush	hush	INTJ	_	5 child	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 child	nmod:poss
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

"Weep on, my sweet Emily"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Weep	punct
2	Weep	weep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 Weep	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Emily	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 Emily	nmod:poss
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Emily	amod
7	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Weep	obl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Weep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep on in a quote	imperative	you not said here	my sweet Emily					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

"Cry on, my dear Emily"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Cry	punct
2	Cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 Cry	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Emily	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 Emily	nmod:poss
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Emily	amod
7	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Cry	obl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Cry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry on speech: express in a quote	imperative	you not said here	my dear Emily					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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