Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off…

Why'd she say she was a mum, then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: say, be · To what, where: mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 996 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off the child» 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 say	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mum	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mum	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mum	det
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 say	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	she				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	she	a mum					tree rules

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

Cos she loves her kids, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 loves	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loves	nsubj
3	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 kids	nmod:poss
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loves	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kids	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	she	her kids and innit					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cos she's a mother and she couldn't stand to lose her kid to the cold ground, innit

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 mother	case
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mother	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mother	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mother	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stand	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stand	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stand	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 stand	advmod
10	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 mother	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 lose	mark
12	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 stand	xcomp
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 kid	nmod:poss
14	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lose	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 ground	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
17	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ground	amod
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lose	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 innit	punct
20	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mother	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	she		cos a mother and innit	tree rules
2	not stand	could	she			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	lose	to-infinitive	she not said here	her kid	to the cold ground	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Eventuality

Option 3

Cos she's the nurse, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 nurse	case
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nurse	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 nurse	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nurse	det
5	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nurse	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					cos the nurse and bruv	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cos she's a mother, that's why

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 mother	case
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mother	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mother	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mother	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 why	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 why	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 why	cop
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					cos a mother	tree rules
2	is	present	that					why property	tree rules

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