Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes…

What did George say, like thanking her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: George · What happens: say, thank · To what, where: George · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	4 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thanking	punct
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 thanking	mark
7	thanking	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 say	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thanking	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	George						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	thank speech: thank	gerund	George not said here		George				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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

Thank you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Thank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present			you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 2

Thanks for being kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 kind	mark
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 kind	cop
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Thanks	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	Thanks not said here					kind property	tree rules

Option 3

Thanks, Emily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Emily	punct
3	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Thanks	vocative

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Thanks for helping my mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	SCONJ	_	3 helping	mark
3	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Thanks	acl
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mum	nmod:poss
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	gerund	Thanks not said here		my mum				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Beneficiary

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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