Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 2…

where's the cupboard hidden, does anyone know?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cupboard, anyone · What happens: be, hide, know · To what, where: cupboard

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1026 «Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 237: the Moor-woman shows the man her cupboard of poetry and tells him about the new Will-o'-the-Wisps born in the marsh» 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	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 know	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cupboard	det
4	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 where	nsubj
5	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cupboard	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 where	punct
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 know	aux
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 know	nsubj
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the cupboard		where property	tree rules
2	hide	participle		the cupboard not said here		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	present · do-support	anyone			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

Deep in the hollow of a rotten oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deep	deep	ADV	_	4 hollow	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 hollow	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hollow	det
4	hollow	hollow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 oak	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 oak	det
7	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 oak	amod
8	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hollow	nmod

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

Option 2

Out on the moor, where it looks like a stump and nobody goes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Out	out	ADV	_	4 moor	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 moor	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moor	det
4	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looks	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 looks	punct
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 looks	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 looks	nsubj
8	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 stump	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stump	det
11	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looks	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 goes	cc
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 goes	nsubj
14	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 looks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	the moor					like a stump	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	go	present	nobody						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Out on the moor, looks like a stump

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Out	out	ADV	_	4 moor	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 moor	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moor	det
4	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looks	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 moor	punct
6	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 stump	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stump	det
9	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	the moor					like a stump	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Hidden in the marsh reeds nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 reeds	advcl
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 marsh	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 marsh	det
4	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hidden	obl
5	reeds	reed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	5 reeds	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	participle				the marsh			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in marsh=Location
2	reed	present						nearby 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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