Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magi…

nah the traveller's last words were what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: last words, traveller · What happens: be, word

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1010 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magician's head, the swan, and the farewell» 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	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 what	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 traveller	det
3	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 words	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 traveller	case
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 what	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 what	cop
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the traveller's last words						tree rules
2	word		the traveller						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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

my day is done

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 day	nmod:poss
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 done	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux:pass
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · passive		my day					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2

I must leave now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 leave	advmod

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

Option 3

I am done

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 done	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 done	aux:pass
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · passive		I					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"my time is up now"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 time	nmod:poss
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 up	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 up	cop
5	up	up	ADV	_	root	root
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 up	advmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	my time				now	up property	tree rules

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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