Test 9 · ★ · Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in…

Bro, what was the angel doing in the fir-wood?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro, angel · What happens: be, do · To what, where: angel, fir wood

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 angel	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 angel	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angel	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 angel	det
6	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	appos
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 angel	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 wood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
10	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wood	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 fir	punct
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 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 angel					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the angel not said here			the fir wood			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 · ← Mova's choice

blessing the young fir trees in the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blessing	bless	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trees	amod
4	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trees	compound
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 blessing	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 snow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snow	det
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 blessing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bless	gerund		the young fir trees		the snow			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme

Option 2

watering the fir cones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	watering	water	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cones	det
3	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cones	compound
4	cones	cone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 watering	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	water	gerund		the fir cones					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent cone=Destination

Option 3

planting the new seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	planting	plant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seeds	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seeds	amod
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 planting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	gerund		the new seeds					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

blessing the young trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blessing	bless	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trees	amod
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 blessing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bless	gerund		the young trees					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme

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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