Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under…

Dude, what were the people at home doing with the letter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, people · What happens: be, do · To what, where: people, home

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1018 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under the willow and is found frozen to death» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 people	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 people	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 people	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dude	appos
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 home	case
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 people	nmod
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 people	acl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 letter	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 letter	det
12	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doing	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dude	the people		home			tree rules
2	do	gerund	the people not said here					with the letter	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

Reading it aloud again and again while the snow fell heavily over the village roofs

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 fell	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Reading	obj
3	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	1 Reading	advmod
4	again	again	ADV	_	1 Reading	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 again	cc
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 again	conj
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 fell	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snow	det
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	nsubj
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	10 fell	advmod
12	over	over	ADP	_	15 roofs	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 roofs	det
14	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 roofs	compound
15	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund		it			again	aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	fall	past	the snow			the village roofs		heavily property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over roof=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Laughing and crying over it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 crying	cc
3	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Laughing	conj
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Laughing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund				it			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Reading it aloud softly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Reading	obj
3	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	1 Reading	advmod
4	softly	softly	ADV	_	1 Reading	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund		it				aloud, softly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

Laughing and crying over it together while sitting around the warm fire at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 crying	cc
3	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Laughing	conj
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crying	obl
6	together	together	ADV	_	3 crying	advmod
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 sitting	mark
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Laughing	advcl
9	around	around	ADP	_	12 fire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
11	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fire	amod
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 home	case
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	gerund	it	together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location
3	sit	gerund	the warm fire	at home	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around fire=Location

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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