Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes…

Was Emily dancing all night at the ball, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Emily · What happens: be, dance · To what, where: Emily, ball

This is test 7 · ★ 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	2 Emily	cop
2	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dancing	nsubj
3	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dancing	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 ball	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ball	det
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dancing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nah	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 dancing	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 dancing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Emily					tree rules
2	dance	gerund	Emily			the ball	night		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at ball=Location

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 danced with all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 danced	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 danced	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 danced	nsubj
4	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 danced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past	she					with all	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she only danced once because she hurt her foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 danced	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 danced	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 danced	advmod
5	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 danced	advmod
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 hurt	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hurt	nsubj
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 danced	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 foot	nmod:poss
11	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past	she					once property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hurt	past	she	her foot					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she hurt her foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hurt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hurt	nsubj
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 foot	nmod:poss
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	past	she	her foot					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, she danced once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 danced	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 danced	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 danced	nsubj
4	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 danced	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past	she					once property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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