Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Thistle's Experiences, part 20…

Did the thistle's mate the Nettle get to be cambric?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nettle · What happens: do, get, be · To what, where: mate, cambric

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 998 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Thistle's Experiences, part 209: a prince leaves a proud princess, and a thistle dreams of glory» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thistle	det
3	thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mate	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 thistle	case
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Nettle	det
7	Nettle	Nettle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	11 cambric	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 cambric	cop
11	cambric	cambric	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the thistle's mate	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Eventuality
2	get	present	the Nettle		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	to-infinitive	the Nettle not said here	cambric	tree rules

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, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Yeah, the Nettle got made into cambric, and the thistle was dead chuffed about it, mate

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Nettle	det
4	Nettle	Nettle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 cambric	case
8	cambric	cambric	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dead	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dead	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thistle	det
12	thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dead	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dead	cop
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 made	parataxis
15	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 dead	conj
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 chuffed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mate	punct
19	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the Nettle	cambric	mate vocative	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into cambric=Product
2	is	past	the thistle			dead property	tree rules
3	chuff	participle	the thistle not said here			about thistle	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Dunno, it was only hoping, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dunno	dunno	INTJ	_	6 hoping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dunno	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hoping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hoping	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 hoping	advmod
6	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hoping	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past · progressive	it					mate vocative	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

Yeah, it got cambric, mate

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	cambric	cambric	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cambric	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	it	cambric and mate					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cambric=Stimulus

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