Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw com…

the snowman says innocent wishes always come true, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snowman, innocent wishes · What happens: say, come · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 977 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw comes, and the Snow Man longs for the stove» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snowman	det
2	snowman	snowman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wishes	amod
5	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 come	advmod
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 come	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 right	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	7 come	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the snowman						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	present	innocent wishes					always, true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, they are sure to be fulfilled one day soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sure	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sure	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sure	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sure	cop
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 fulfilled	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 fulfilled	aux:pass
8	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sure	ccomp
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 day	nummod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fulfilled	obl:unmarked
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 fulfilled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					sure property	tree rules
2	fulfil	to-infinitive · passive	they not said here				day	soon property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they are sure to be fulfilled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sure	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sure	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sure	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sure	cop
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 fulfilled	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 fulfilled	aux:pass
8	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sure	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					sure property	tree rules
2	fulfil	to-infinitive · passive	they not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, they are never granted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 granted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 granted	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 granted	aux:pass
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 granted	advmod
6	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grant	present · passive		they					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme

Option 4

nah, they are rarely fulfilled by anyone in the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 fulfilled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fulfilled	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fulfilled	aux:pass
5	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	6 fulfilled	advmod
6	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 anyone	case
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 fulfilled	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 anyone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fulfil	present · passive	anyone	they				rarely property	tree rules

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