Test 13 · ★ · Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plag…

Blud, how did the tax man sum her up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tax man · What happens: sum up · To what, where: Blud

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 950 «Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plague to Falster» 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	Blud	Blud	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sum	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Blud	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 sum	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sum	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	compound
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sum	nsubj
8	sum	sum	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sum	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 sum	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 sum	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sum up	past · do-support	the tax man	Blud				Blud vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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

She had property once, long ago

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 had	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ago	punct
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 ago	advmod
7	ago	ago	ADV	_	2 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She	property				ago, once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She had property once

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She	property				once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Patient

Option 3

She married a rich man

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 married	nsubj
2	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 married	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past	She	a rich man					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient

Option 4

She kept a shop long

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shop	det
4	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obj
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	She	a shop				long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Theme

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