Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off…
Did she ever get her kid back, mate?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: get back · To what, where: kid
This is test 13 · ★ 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 kid | nmod:poss |
| 6 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | vocative |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past · do-support | she | her kid | ever | mate vocative | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus |
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
Yeah, she got him back in the end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | she | him = he | in the end | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, she got her kid back after she begged Death on her knees for a while
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 begged | advcl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 kid | nmod:poss |
| 6 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 begged | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 begged | nsubj |
| 10 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 begged | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 knees | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 knees | nmod:poss |
| 14 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 begged | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 while | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 while | det |
| 17 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begged | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | she | her kid | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | kid | Death | kid's knees | while | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent death=Recipient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, Death carried the child off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 carried | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 carried | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | past | Death | the child | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
Option 4
Nah, Death carried the child off to the unknown land, and she never saw him again, bruv
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 carried | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 carried | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 land | det |
| 10 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 land | amod |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 saw | advmod |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 carried | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | obj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 saw | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bruv | punct |
| 20 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | past | Death | the child | the unknown land | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to land=Destination | |||
| 2 | not see | past | Death | child | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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