Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes…

Did the dancing lady just want to show off, or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dancing lady · What happens: do, want, show off · To what, where: dancing lady

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 955 «Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes his dolls alive and learns to be content» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
3	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lady	compound
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 want	advmod
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lady	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 show	mark
8	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 show	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Did	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the dancing lady	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Eventuality
2	want	present	the dancing lady not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	show off not said to happen	to-infinitive	the dancing lady not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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

Nah, her shoe was busted and she had no choice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 busted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shoe	nmod:poss
4	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 busted	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 busted	aux:pass
6	busted	bust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 busted	conj
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 choice	det
11	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bust	past · passive		her shoe					vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	have	past	she	no choice					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, a doctor told her to stand like that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 doctor	det
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stand	mark
8	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	a doctor		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stand not said to happen	to-infinitive	a doctor not said here					like that	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, she was doing a bet with the lecturer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 doing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 doing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	aux
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bet	det
7	bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 lecturer	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lecturer	det
10	lecturer	lecturer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	she	a bet				with the lecturer	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bet=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she said the house would fall apart without her

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 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fall	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fall	aux
8	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	apart	apart	ADV	_	8 fall	advmod
10	without	without	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fall	obl

#	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 clause=Topic
2	fall apart	would	the house					without her = she; apart property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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