Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes…
Was Emily blushing or nah when she saw George?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: be, see · To what, where: Emily blushing, George
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blushing | cop |
| 2 | Emily | Emily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 blushing | compound |
| 3 | blushing | blushing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 nah | cc |
| 5 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 blushing | discourse |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Emily blushing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | past | she | George | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer george=Stimulus |
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
Yeah, she went all pink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 pink | advmod |
| 6 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | she | pink property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, she turned red
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 turned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 turned | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | she | red property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, she was blushing like a rose all over
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 blushing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blushing | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 blushing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blushing | aux |
| 5 | blushing | blush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 rose | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rose | det |
| 8 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blushing | obl |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 over | advmod |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 blushing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blush | past · progressive | she | like a rose; over property | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she was blushing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 blushing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 blushing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blushing | aux |
| 5 | blushing | blush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blush | past · progressive | she | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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