Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off…

So she grabbed two flowers, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: grab · To what, where: two flowers

This is test 3 · ★ 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 grabbed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grabbed	nsubj
3	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 flowers	nummod
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grabbed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grabbed	punct
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 grabbed	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 grabbed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	she	two flowers					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme

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 grabbed two flowers and then smashed the pots against the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 grabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grabbed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grabbed	nsubj
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 flowers	nummod
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grabbed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 smashed	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 smashed	advmod
9	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grabbed	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pots	det
11	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 smashed	obj
12	against	against	ADP	_	14 wall	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wall	det
14	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smashed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	she	two flowers					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
2	smash	past	she not said here	the pots		the wall	then		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pot=Theme against wall=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she took three flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 flowers	nummod
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	she	three flowers					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she grabbed two flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 grabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grabbed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grabbed	nsubj
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 flowers	nummod
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grabbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	she	two flowers					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme

Option 4

Nah, she dropped two petals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 petals	nummod
6	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	she	two petals					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petal=Theme

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