Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and…

Was Marie's mum chill about the nest raiding?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: be, chill, raid · To what, where: mum

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mum	cop
2	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mum	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Marie	case
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chill	nsubj
5	chill	chill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 nest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nest	det
8	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chill	obl
9	raiding	raid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 chill	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Marie's mum		tree rules
2	chill	present	Marie's mum		about the nest	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	raid	gerund	Marie's mum not said here			vn attack-60.1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, she said the birds were not hers to keep and it was wrong

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hers	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hers	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 hers	advmod
9	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 said	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 keep	mark
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hers	acl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wrong	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wrong	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wrong	cop
15	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	past	the birds	hers = she		tree rules
3	keep	to-infinitive	she not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	it		wrong property	tree rules

Option 2

nah, she didn't care at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 care	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 care	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 care	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 care	advmod
6	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 care	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not care	past · do-support	she			all			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

nah, she said it was sinful but gave him a sweet anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sinful	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sinful	cop
7	sinful	sinful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	iobj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sweet	det
12	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gave	iobj
13	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	9 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it		sinful property	tree rules
3	give	past	she not said here	a sweet	anyway property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sweet=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, she said it was sinful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sinful	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sinful	cop
7	sinful	sinful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					sinful property	tree rules

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