Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 168: Karen dan…

why was she thinking about her shoes in church instead of praying?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: think, pray

This is test 6 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 thinking	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thinking	nsubj
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 shoes	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shoes	nmod:poss
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thinking	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 church	case
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shoes	nmod
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 praying	mark
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	praying	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 thinking	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	she					about her shoes in church	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about shoe=Topic
2	pray	gerund	she not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

they were all she could think about since the dancing and the ball

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	6 think	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 think	advmod
8	since	since	ADP	_	10 dancing	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dancing	det
10	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 think	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ball	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ball	det
13	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dancing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think about speech: other	could · past	they				since the dancing and the ball	about, all property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she was thinking of the ball

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	3 thinking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinking	aux
3	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 ball	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ball	det
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	she					of the ball	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

she could not stop looking at them

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	4 stop	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 stop	advmod
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	could	she						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	look	gerund	she not said here					at them = they	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they were all she could think about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	6 think	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 think	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think about speech: other	could · past	they					about, all property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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