Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off…

Did the crocus have a sick head, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crocus · What happens: have · To what, where: sick head

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crocus	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crocus	det
3	crocus	crocu	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 head	det
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 head	amod
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	4 have	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the crocus	a sick head					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it was fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						fine property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, it did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	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	do	past	it						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, its stem was bent sickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 bent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bent	punct
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 stem	nmod:poss
4	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bent	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bent	aux:pass
6	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	sickly	sickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bent	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	past · passive		its stem				sickly property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material
2	stem		its = it						nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, its head hung down sickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hung	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hung	punct
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hung	nsubj
5	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 hung	advmod
7	sickly	sickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hung	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang down	past	its head					down, sickly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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