Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud…

Mate, what were the brothers wearing on their chests?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, brothers · What happens: be, wear · To what, where: brothers, chests

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1020 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud prince is beaten by a gnat; a wicked queen plots against Eliza» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brothers	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 brothers	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brothers	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brothers	det
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mate	appos
7	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 brothers	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 chests	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 chests	nmod:poss
10	chests	chest	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wearing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate	the brothers					tree rules
2	wear	gerund	the brothers not said here			brothers's chests			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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

A golden star shining on each chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 star	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 star	amod
3	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 star	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 chest	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 chest	det
7	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shining	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund	a golden star not said here			each chest			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chest=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A star

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 star	det
2	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A badge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 badge	det
2	badge	badge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cross	det
2	cross	cross	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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