Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off…

Was she like, begging Death for mercy, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: be, beg · To what, where: Death

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 like	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
3	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 begging	punct
5	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 like	conj
6	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 begging	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 mercy	case
8	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 begging	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruv	punct
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mercy	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					like property	tree rules
2	beg speech: request	gerund	she not said here	Death				for mercy and bruv	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent death=Recipient for mercy=Topic

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, she was calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was weeping and begging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 weeping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 weeping	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 weeping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 weeping	aux
5	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 begging	cc
7	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 weeping	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past · progressive	she						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request	gerund	she not said here						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, she was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	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	be	past	she						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, she was laughing at him, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 laughing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughing	aux
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laughing	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past · progressive	she					at him = he; mate vocative	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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