Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His Daughters, part 239…

bro, what was the old man doing with all that fire?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, old man · What happens: be, do · To what, where: old man

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1028 «Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His Daughters, part 239: the forest is felled, the ship is never sold, and the gold-making ends in smoke» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 man	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bro	appos
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 man	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 fire	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 fire	det
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bro	the old man					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the old man not said here					with all fire	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

building a secret ship in the locked room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ship	det
3	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ship	amod
4	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 building	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
7	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 room	amod
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 building	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	gerund		a secret ship		the locked room			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ship=Product
2	lock	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

trying to make gold, the sneaky chancer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 make	mark
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 trying	xcomp
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 trying	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chancer	det
7	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chancer	amod
8	chancer	chancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 trying	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund		the sneaky chancer					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive		gold					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gold=Product

Option 3

trying to make gold in the locked room, the sneaky chancer who wanted to be rich

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 chancer	csubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 make	mark
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 trying	xcomp
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
7	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 room	amod
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 trying	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chancer	det
11	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chancer	amod
12	chancer	chancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 wanted	nsubj
14	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 chancer	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	17 rich	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 rich	cop
17	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	gerund					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive		gold	the locked room		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gold=Product
3	lock	participle					vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	want	past	the sneaky chancer				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
5	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	the sneaky chancer not said here			rich property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

hiding his cows from the king's men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cows	nmod:poss
3	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 hiding	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 men	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 men	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund		his cows				from the king's men	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cow=Patient from man=Beneficiary

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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