Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 168: Karen dan…

ngl the old lady was mad about the red shoes, what did she say?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 957 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 168: Karen dances in her red shoes and cannot stop» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mad	nsubj
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	1 ngl	appos
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	cop
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 shoes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shoes	det
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shoes	amod
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mad	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 say	obj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 say	aux
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 mad	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	ngl					about the red shoes; mad property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	ngl						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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

that it was rude and wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 rude	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rude	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rude	cop
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wrong	cc
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rude	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					rude property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

that it was shocking and improper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 shocking	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shocking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shocking	cop
4	shocking	shocking	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 improper	cc
6	improper	improper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shocking	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					shocking property	tree rules

Option 3

that the girl should go home and never come to church again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 go	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 come	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 come	advmod
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 church	case
11	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
12	again	again	ADV	_	9 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	should	the girl					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not come	infinitive	the girl not said here			church	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

that it was shocking and improper for a girl to wear red shoes to church

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 shocking	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shocking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shocking	cop
4	shocking	shocking	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 improper	cc
6	improper	improper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shocking	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 girl	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shocking	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 wear	mark
11	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 shocking	advcl
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shoes	amod
13	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wear	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 church	case
15	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					for a girl; shocking property	tree rules
2	wear	to-infinitive		red shoes				to church	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme

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