Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer: the mo…

Bruv, why did the mouse even bother stayin' with him?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: mouse

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 992 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer: the mouse's adventures end in a wedding and a critics' complaint, then storks appear on a roof» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	even	even	ADV	_	9 stayin	advmod
8	bother	bother	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stayin	det
9	stayin	stayin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 stayin	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the mouse				with mouse; Bruv vocative; bother stayin obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Eventuality

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

She knew he would be terribly lonely in that cell without her company

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 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lonely	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 lonely	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 lonely	cop
6	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	7 lonely	advmod
7	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 cell	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 cell	det
10	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lonely	obl
11	without	without	ADP	_	13 company	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 company	nmod:poss
13	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	She					without her company	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	would	he			that cell		lonely, terribly property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She had a kind heart and knew he'd be lonely without her in the cold cell.

The tree, 17 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 heart	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heart	amod
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 knew	cc
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lonely	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lonely	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 lonely	cop
11	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 knew	ccomp
12	without	without	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 knew	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 cell	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cell	det
16	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cell	amod
17	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knew	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	She	a kind heart			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
2	know	past	She not said here		the cold cell	without her = she	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	would	he			lonely property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She knew he'd be lonely without 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 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lonely	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lonely	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 lonely	cop
6	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	ccomp
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	She					without her = she	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	would	he					lonely property	tree rules

Option 4

She felt sorry for the poor man

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 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	She					for the poor man; sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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