Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under…

Bruh, what is the young sailor always reading?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: young sailor · What happens: be, read

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sailor	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sailor	amod
7	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 reading	advmod
9	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 sailor	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the young sailor						tree rules
2	read	gerund	the young sailor not said here					always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

His Bible from grandma

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 Bible	nmod:poss
2	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 grandma	case
4	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Bible	nmod

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

Option 2

A thick old Bible with a golden cover and the words of the psalms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Bible	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Bible	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Bible	amod
4	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 cover	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cover	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cover	amod
8	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Bible	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 words	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 words	det
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Bible	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 psalms	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 psalms	det
14	psalms	psalm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 words	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	word			the psalms					nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

His letter from home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 letter	nmod:poss
2	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 home	case
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 letter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	letter		His = he			home			nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent from=place

Option 4

The Bible that his grandmother had given him before he sailed north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bible	det
2	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 given	nsubj:pass
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 given	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grandmother	nmod:poss
5	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 given	aux
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 given	iobj
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 sailed	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sailed	nsubj
11	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 given	advcl
12	north	north	ADV	_	11 sailed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · perfect · passive		the Bible	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme
2	sail	past	he					north property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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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