Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Brother and Sister: the Queen comes bac…

Wait, who was the nurse watching at midnight?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, nurse · What happens: wait, be, watch · To what, where: nurse

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 100 «Grimm's Tales, The Brother and Sister: the Queen comes back to life and the witch is punished» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nurse	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 nurse	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nurse	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nurse	det
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 nurse	acl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 midnight	case
9	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watching	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the nurse		tree rules
3	watch	gerund	the nurse not said here		midnight	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

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

The empty cot by the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cot	det
2	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cot	amod
3	cot	cot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cot	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The cradle with the baby in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cradle	det
2	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 baby	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 baby	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cradle	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 baby	nmod

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

Option 3

The wooden cradle where the new baby was lying wrapped in a blanket beside the bed

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cradle	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cradle	amod
3	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 wrapped	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 baby	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 baby	amod
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wrapped	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wrapped	aux:pass
9	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 wrapped	aux:pass
10	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cradle	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 blanket	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 blanket	det
13	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wrapped	obl
14	beside	beside	ADP	_	16 bed	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bed	det
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wrapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	past · passive		the new baby		a blanket		beside the bed	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in blanket=Destination

Option 4

The large carved cradle in the nursery where the infant prince had been sleeping since the autumn

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cradle	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cradle	amod
3	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cradle	amod
4	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 nursery	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nursery	det
7	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cradle	nmod
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 sleeping	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prince	det
10	infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 prince	amod
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sleeping	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sleeping	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 sleeping	aux
14	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 cradle	acl
15	since	since	ADP	_	17 autumn	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 autumn	det
17	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sleeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	past · perfect · progressive	the infant prince				autumn		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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