Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 234: Eliza sp…

did the saints in the church do anything, fam?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: saints · What happens: do · To what, where: anything

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1023 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 234: Eliza spins nettles in silence, is taken to the king's castle, and is made queen while she still cannot speak.» 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 saints	det
3	saints	saint	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 church	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 church	det
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saints	nmod
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	parataxis
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 do	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 anything	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the saints in the church	anything					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

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, they nodded, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nodded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nodded	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nodded	nsubj
4	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 innit	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nodded	punct
6	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nod	past	they						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	innit	imperative	you not said here						tree rules

Option 2

they bowed down to the altar, fam, real slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bowed	nsubj
2	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 bowed	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 altar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 altar	det
6	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bowed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
8	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 altar	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slow	punct
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 slow	amod
11	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bowed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow down	past	they					to the altar and fam; down property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to altar=Theme

Option 3

they just stared at her, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stared	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 stared	advmod
3	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stared	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	past	they	bruv				at her = she	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they shook their heads like it's not true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shook	nsubj
2	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 heads	nmod:poss
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shook	obj
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 true	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 true	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 true	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 true	advmod
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shook	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	they	their heads					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	not is	present	it					true property	tree rules

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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