Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sw…

Did she cry on the roof, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: cry · To what, where: roof

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cry	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cry	nsubj
3	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 roof	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 roof	det
6	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cry	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nah	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 nah	cc
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 cry	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 cry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · do-support	she			the roof			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on roof=Location

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

yeah, she wept until the gilt came off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wept	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wept	nsubj
4	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gilt	det
7	gilt	gilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wept	advcl
9	off	off	ADV	_	8 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	she						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come off	past	the gilt					off property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 2

yeah, she wept and then she slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wept	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wept	nsubj
4	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 slept	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 slept	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slept	nsubj
8	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wept	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	she						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	past	she				then		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she wept till she washed the gilt off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wept	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wept	nsubj
4	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 washed	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 washed	nsubj
7	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wept	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gilt	det
9	gilt	gilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 washed	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	7 washed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	she						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wash off	past	she	the gilt					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gilt=Patient

Option 4

nah, she laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	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	laugh	past	she						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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