Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and…

How old was Marie, bro, when she was rolling round with her gun?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Marie · What happens: be, roll · To what, where: old Marie

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 948 «Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and Soren rob the birds' nests» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 old	advmod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Marie	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Marie	cop
4	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bro	punct
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Marie	list
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Marie	punct
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 rolling	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 rolling	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 rolling	aux
11	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 Marie	advcl
12	round	round	ADV	_	11 rolling	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 gun	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 gun	nmod:poss
15	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rolling	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Marie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		old Marie					tree rules
2	roll	past · progressive	Marie					with Marie's gun; round property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gun=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

about twelve, and she could shoot better than all the men in the yard

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	2 twelve	advmod
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shoot	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shoot	cc
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shoot	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 shoot	aux
7	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 twelve	parataxis
8	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 shoot	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	12 men	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 men	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 men	det
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 better	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 yard	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 yard	det
15	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shoot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	could	she					in the yard; well property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in yard=Destination

Option 2

twelve, she could shoot like a pro and ride with the men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 shoot	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shoot	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shoot	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 shoot	aux
5	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 pro	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pro	det
8	pro	pro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shoot	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ride	cc
10	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shoot	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 men	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 men	det
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ride	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	could	twelve					like a pro	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	ride	present	twelve not said here					with the men	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

twelve, she could ride like a boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ride	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ride	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ride	aux
5	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 twelve	parataxis
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 boy	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ride	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	could	she					like a boy	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

twelve, she could shoot like a pro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shoot	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shoot	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 shoot	aux
5	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 twelve	conj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 pro	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pro	det
8	pro	pro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shoot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	could	she					like a pro	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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