Test 14 · ★ · Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in…

So who sits on the snowdrift hill looking south at the end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: snowdrift hill · What happens: sit, look · To what, where: snowdrift hill

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1032 «Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in autumn and the old Winter waits for the stork» 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sits	advmod
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 sits	nsubj
3	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 hill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hill	det
6	snowdrift	snowdrift	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hill	compound
7	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	obl
8	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 hill	acl
9	south	south	ADV	_	8 looking	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looking	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present				the snowdrift hill			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location
2	look	gerund	the snowdrift hill not said here				at the end	south property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at end=Theme

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

Spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

old Winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Winter	amod
2	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the ruler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ruler	det
2	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the stork

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stork	det
2	stork	stork	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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