Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Frog and the Lion Fairy, part 1: the siste…

So the husbands were just lying there, tied up in the dark?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: husbands · What happens: lie, tie up · To what, where: dark

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1178 «Fairy Book, The Frog and the Lion Fairy, part 1: the sisters free their husbands, and the queen's chariot crashes» 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	_	6 lying	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 husbands	det
3	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lying	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lying	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 lying	advmod
6	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lying	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tied	punct
9	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 lying	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 tied	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 dark	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dark	det
13	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tied	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 lying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	the husbands			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tie up	participle	the husbands not said here			the dark			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, wings and feet, proper harsh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 wings	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 feet	cc
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wings	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 harsh	punct
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 harsh	amod
8	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wings	parataxis

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

Option 2

Yeah, they were tied up tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 tied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tied	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tied	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tied	aux:pass
5	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 tied	compound:prt
7	tight	tight	ADV	_	5 tied	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	past · passive		they				tight property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

Nah, they were sitting by a fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sitting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sitting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	they					by a fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they were up in the light, chatting and eating, with no ropes on them at all really

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 light	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 light	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 light	cop
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 were	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 light	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 light	det
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 chatting	punct
10	chatting	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 light	acl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 eating	cc
12	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 chatting	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ropes	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 ropes	case
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 ropes	det
16	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 chatting	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ropes	nmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 ropes	nmod
21	really	really	ADV	_	16 ropes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	they	the light		tree rules
2	chat speech: other	gerund	the light not said here		with no ropes on ropes at all	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with rope=Co-Agent
3	eat	gerund	the light not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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