Test 7 · ★ · Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179…

fr, was clara still alive when they pulled her out?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: be, pull out · To what, where: fr clara, clara

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 968 «Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179: the shipwreck and Clara's death» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clara	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clara	cop
4	clara	clara	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 alive	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 alive	advmod
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 pulled	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pulled	nsubj
9	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 alive	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pulled	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	9 pulled	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 alive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		fr clara					tree rules
2	pull out	past	they	clara					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 · ✓ the right answer

nah, she was already gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 gone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	cop
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 gone	advmod
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

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

Option 2

yeah, she lived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	she						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she was long dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dead	amod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

yeah, she was still breathing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 breathing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 breathing	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 breathing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 breathing	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 breathing	advmod
6	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	past · progressive	she				still		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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