Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 233: Eliza fl…

wait so Eliza sees ships and churches and it's all just fog, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Eliza, it · What happens: wait, see, be · To what, where: ships, fog

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1022 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 233: Eliza flies over the sea and waits on a tiny rock» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 sees	advmod
3	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sees	nsubj
4	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
5	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sees	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 churches	cc
7	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ships	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fog	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fog	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fog	cop
11	all	all	ADV	_	13 fog	advmod
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 fog	advmod
13	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ships	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct
15	right	right	INTJ	_	1 wait	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	present	Eliza	ships and churches and fog		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus
3	is a	present	it	fog	all property	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

yeah, it was a fog of the marsh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 fog	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fog	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fog	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fog	det
6	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 marsh	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 marsh	det
9	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fog	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a fog				of the marsh	tree rules

Option 2

no, the churches are real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 real	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 churches	det
4	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 real	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 real	cop
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the churches					real property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

no, the churches were real towers far off, but the fog hid them until the evening

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 off	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 churches	det
4	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 off	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 off	cop
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 towers	amod
7	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 off	nsubj
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 off	advmod
9	off	off	ADV	_	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hid	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 hid	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fog	det
13	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hid	nsubj
14	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 off	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hid	obj
16	until	until	ADP	_	18 evening	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 evening	det
18	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the churches					far, off property	tree rules
2	hide	past	the fog	towers = tower			evening		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it was a sea mist all along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 mist	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mist	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mist	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mist	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mist	compound
7	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 along	advmod
9	along	along	ADV	_	7 mist	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a sea mist				along property	tree rules

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