Test 11 · ★ · Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks…

what did nobody hear, real talk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: hear · To what, where: real talk

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1019 «Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks a wise woman for help, and a cruel prince wins riches by destroying other lands» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 hear	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 hear	nsubj
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 talk	amod
7	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	nobody	real talk					tree rules

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 sighs and wails from the ruins of every village the prince had burned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sighs	det
2	sighs	sigh	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 burned	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wails	cc
4	wails	wail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sighs	conj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 ruins	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ruins	det
7	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sighs	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 village	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 village	det
10	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ruins	nmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prince	det
12	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 burned	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 burned	aux
14	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · perfect · passive		the sighs from the ruins of every village and wails					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	ruin			every village					nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

the sighs and wails from the ruins that the prince had left behind him on the road

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	2 sighs	det
2	sighs	sigh	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wails	cc
4	wails	wail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sighs	conj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 ruins	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ruins	det
7	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sighs	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 left	nsubj:pass
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 left	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 left	aux
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ruins	acl:relcl
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 left	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 road	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 road	det
17	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect · passive		the ruins		the road		behind him = he	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme behind he=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the sighs and wails from the ruins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sighs	det
2	sighs	sigh	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wails	cc
4	wails	wail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sighs	conj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 ruins	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ruins	det
7	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sighs	nmod

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

Option 4

the church bells ringing loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bells	det
2	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bells	compound
3	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	ringing	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 bells	acl
5	loud	loud	ADV	_	4 ringing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	gerund	the church bells not said here					loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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