Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off…

So Death breathed on her hands, didn't he?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Death, he · What happens: breathe, not do · To what, where: hands

This is test 12 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 breathed	advmod
2	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 breathed	nsubj
3	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 breathed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 breathed	conj
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 did	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 did	nsubj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 breathed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	past	Death			Death's hands			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on hand=Destination
2	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, his touch was gentle, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 gentle	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 touch	nmod:poss
4	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gentle	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gentle	cop
6	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
8	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gentle	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his touch					gentle property	tree rules
2	touch		his = he						nom touch «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Yeah, his breath was colder than ice and it made her hands go numb for hours

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 colder	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 colder	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 breath	nmod:poss
4	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 colder	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 colder	cop
6	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 ice	case
8	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 colder	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 made	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	nsubj
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 colder	conj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 go	nsubj
14	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 made	ccomp
15	numb	numb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 go	xcomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 hours	case
17	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his breath		than ice; cold property	tree rules
2	make	past	breath	hour		tree rules
3	go	present	her hands		numb property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, his breath was warm as soup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 warm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 warm	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 breath	nmod:poss
4	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 warm	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 warm	cop
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 soup	case
8	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 warm	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his breath					as soup; warm property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, his breath was colder than ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 colder	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 colder	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 breath	nmod:poss
4	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 colder	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 colder	cop
6	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 ice	case
8	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 colder	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his breath					than ice; cold property	tree rules

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