Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off…

What did Death say about her eyes, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Death · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	4 say	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Death					about Death's eyes	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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

They were red, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 red	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 red	cop
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 red	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					mate vocative; red property	tree rules

Option 2

They were sadder now, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sadder	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sadder	cop
3	sadder	sad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sadder	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sadder	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They				now	mate vocative; sad property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They were clearer now, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 clearer	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clearer	cop
3	clearer	clear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 clearer	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 clearer	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clearer	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They				now	mate vocative; clear property	tree rules

Option 4

They look tired now, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	xcomp
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 look	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	They				now	mate vocative; tired property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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