Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 167: prizes ar…

and the old lady just burnt them? that's harsh

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old lady, that · What happens: burnt, be · To what, where: them

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 956 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 167: prizes are argued over, then poor Karen gets red shoes and is taken away» 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 burnt	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burnt	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 burnt	advmod
6	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 burnt	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 burnt	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 harsh	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 harsh	cop
11	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 burnt	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	past	the old lady	them = they					tree rules
2	is	present	that					harsh property	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 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she didn't burn them, she gave them to the clergyman's daughter, which was kind of nice

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 burn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 burn	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 burn	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 burn	advmod
6	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 burn	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 burn	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 daughter	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 clergyman	det
14	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 daughter	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 clergyman	case
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 kind	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 kind	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 kind	cop
20	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 daughter	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 nice	case
22	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not burn	past · do-support	she	them = they			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	give	past	she		them = they	to the clergyman's daughter	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to daughter=Recipient
3	is a	past	the clergyman's daughter	kind		of nice	tree rules

Option 2

yeah, she thought they were hideous and burnt them in the stove, proper harsh

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hideous	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hideous	cop
7	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 burnt	cc
9	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 burnt	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 stove	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stove	det
13	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burnt	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 harsh	punct
15	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 harsh	amod
16	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stove	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	they			hideous property	tree rules
3	burnt	past	she not said here	them = they	the stove		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she thought they were hideous, proper harsh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hideous	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hideous	cop
7	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 proper	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hideous	conj
10	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hideous	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	they	hideous property	tree rules
3	be		they not said here		tree rules
4	be		they not said here		tree rules

Option 4

yeah, she sold them at the market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sold	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	nsubj
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 market	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 market	det
8	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	she	them = they		the market			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Theme at market=Asset

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