Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off…
Then Death nicked the kid, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Death · What happens: nick · To what, where: kid
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 nicked | advmod |
| 2 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nicked | nsubj |
| 3 | nicked | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kid | det |
| 5 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nicked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nicked | punct |
| 7 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 nicked | discourse |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 nicked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past | Death | the kid | then | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient |
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
Nah, he didn't
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | he | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Yeah, he took him
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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | he | him = he | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, Death took the child away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | 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 took | obj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past | Death | the child | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
Option 4
Nah, Death left the kid alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 left | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kid | det |
| 6 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Death | the kid | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme |
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