Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Marie Grubbe, part 160: a sick, wanderin…

the peewit kept yelling you thief, why tho?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: peewit · What happens: keep, yell · To what, where: you

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 949 «Andersen's Tales, Marie Grubbe, part 160: a sick, wandering Marie is lifted onto a ship» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 peewit	det
2	peewit	peewit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 yelling	obj
6	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yelling	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 why	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 kept	parataxis
9	tho	tho	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 why	nsubj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the peewit						tree rules
2	yell speech: express	gerund	the peewit not said here	you					tree rules

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

she robbed birds' nests at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 robbed	nsubj
2	robbed	rob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 nests	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 birds	case
5	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 robbed	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 robbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rob	past	she	birds's nests		home			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nest=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she took eggs from trees as a girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 trees	case
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obl
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 girl	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	she	eggs		trees		as a girl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent egg=Theme from tree=Initial_Location

Option 3

she stole bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	she	bread					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bread=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

she stole eggs from the farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stole	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 farm	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farm	det
6	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	she	eggs		the farm			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent egg=Theme from farm=Source

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