Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a…

Be real, what was the thing standing on the stairs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: real thing · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: real thing, stairs

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 102 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a simple boy is sent to learn shivering and throws a ghost down the stairs» 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 thing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 thing	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 stairs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stairs	det
11	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 standing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive				real property	tree rules
2	is a	past		the real thing			tree rules
3	stand	gerund	the real thing not said here		the stairs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stair=Location

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

a white figure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 figure	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 figure	amod
3	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the sexton's wife in a white nightdress

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sexton	det
2	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sexton	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 nightdress	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 nightdress	det
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nightdress	amod
8	nightdress	nightdress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod

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

Option 3

a tall white figure with a sheet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 figure	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 figure	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 figure	amod
4	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 sheet	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sheet	det
7	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 figure	nmod

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

Option 4

a tall shadow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shadow	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shadow	amod
3	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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