Test 9 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, The Story of Mongan, part 36: a hai…

Who was sitting at the back, listening with all his ears?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: sit, listen · To what, where: back

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1068 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Story of Mongan, part 36: a hailstorm sends Mongan into Faery, where a feast and a tale begin» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 sitting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sitting	aux
3	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 back	det
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 listening	punct
8	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sitting	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 ears	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 ears	det:predet
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ears	nmod:poss
12	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 listening	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sitting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive				the back			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at back=Location
2	listen	gerund						with his ears	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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

Fergus the bard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bard	det
3	bard	bard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fergus	appos

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

Option 2

The old man at the back of the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 back	det
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hall	det
9	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cairid the story-teller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cairid	Cairid	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teller	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teller	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 story	punct
5	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cairid	appos

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

Option 4

The silent poet who sat listening by the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 poet	det
2	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 poet	amod
3	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 poet	acl:relcl
6	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sat	xcomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 listening	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the silent poet						tree rules
2	listen	gerund	the silent poet not said here					by the door	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by door=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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