Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sw…

Why did she bail on the pot-pourri jar?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: bail · To what, where: pourri jar

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 974 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep: the china lovers flee the table, and the old Chinaman is broken and riveted» 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 bail	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bail	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bail	nsubj
4	bail	bail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	10 jar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 jar	det
7	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pourri	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 pot	punct
9	pourri	pourri	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jar	compound
10	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bail	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bail	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bail	past · do-support	she			the pourri jar			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

the Chinaman and the jar used to be lovers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Chinaman	det
2	Chinaman	Chinaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 used	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 jar	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 jar	det
5	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Chinaman	conj
6	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 lovers	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 lovers	cop
9	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 used	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	the Chinaman and the jar						vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	to-infinitive	the Chinaman and the jar not said here	lovers					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

because the jar was once the Chinaman's wife and she refuses to live in his house again

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 jar	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jar	det
3	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wife	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wife	cop
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 wife	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Chinaman	det
7	Chinaman	Chinaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 wife	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Chinaman	case
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 refuses	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 refuses	nsubj
12	refuses	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wife	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 live	mark
14	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 refuses	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 house	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 house	nmod:poss
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 live	obl
18	again	again	ADV	_	14 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Chinaman's wife			because the jar; once property	tree rules
2	refuse	present	wife					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not live	to-infinitive	wife not said here		his house	again		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

Option 3

the jar is full of old dried roses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 jar	det
2	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 roses	case
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 roses	amod
7	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 roses	amod
8	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the jar					of old dried roses; full property	tree rules
2	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

the Chinaman and the jar used to be lovers before the wedding was called off

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Chinaman	det
2	Chinaman	Chinaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 used	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 jar	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 jar	det
5	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Chinaman	conj
6	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 lovers	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 lovers	cop
9	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 used	xcomp
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 called	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wedding	det
12	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 called	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 called	aux:pass
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 used	advcl
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 called	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	use	past	the Chinaman and the jar		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	to-infinitive	the Chinaman and the jar not said here	lovers	tree rules
3	call off speech: assert	past · passive		the wedding	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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