Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1…

So why didn't the first mouse dance?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 why	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 why	advcl:relcl
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 dance	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dance	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 dance	amod
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dance	compound
8	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

she thought it was nothing for a mouse, so she sat by the wall watching

The tree, 15 words

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nothing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nothing	cop
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 thought	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 mouse	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mouse	det
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nothing	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 sat	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 wall	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wall	det
15	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obl
16	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	nothing	for a mouse	tree rules
3	sit	past	mouse		by the wall	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by wall=Location
4	watch	gerund	mouse not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 2

she thought dancing was not for her

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 thought	xcomp
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 her	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 her	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dancing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	dance	gerund	she not said here		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is	past		for her = she	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she thought it was nothing for a mouse

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nothing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nothing	cop
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 thought	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 mouse	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mouse	det
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	nothing				for a mouse	tree rules

Option 4

she thought it was nothing for a mouse and felt too proud to take part in such a thing

The tree, 19 words

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nothing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nothing	cop
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 thought	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 mouse	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mouse	det
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nothing	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 felt	cc
10	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 proud	advmod
12	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 felt	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 proud	xcomp
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 thing	case
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 thing	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 thing	det
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	nothing		for a mouse	tree rules
3	feel	past	she not said here			proud property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	take	to-infinitive	she not said here	part	such thing		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in thing=Location

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