Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2: the soldie…

did the old lady of the court watch her bed, or not?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: old lady · What happens: do, watch · To what, where: old lady, bed

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1002 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2: the soldier takes gold from the dogs' chests, spends it, and calls the princess up with the tinder-box» 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	4 lady	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 court	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 court	det
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watch	obl
8	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lady	acl:relcl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bed	nmod:poss
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watch	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 not	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 not	cc
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 did	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the old lady					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Eventuality
2	watch	infinitive	the old lady not said here	her bed				of the court	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=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

no, she left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	she						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

nah, she was sleeping too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sleeping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sleeping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sleeping	aux
5	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	5 sleeping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past · progressive	she						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

yeah, she watched the bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 watched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 watched	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 watched	nsubj
4	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bed	det
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	she	the bed					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme

Option 4

nah, she slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 slept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slept	nsubj
4	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	she						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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