Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans: the silent sister save…

bro, so the sister just sat in a tree for ages? what was she even doing up there?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, she · What happens: sit, do up · To what, where: tree

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 121 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans: the silent sister saves her brothers from the fire, and Rapunzel begins» 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	7 sat	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sister	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 sister	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sister	det
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bro	conj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 sat	advmod
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 ages	case
12	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sat	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 doing	obj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 doing	aux
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 doing	nsubj
17	even	even	ADV	_	18 doing	advmod
18	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sat	advcl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 doing	compound:prt
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 doing	advmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	bro and the sister			a tree	for ages		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location
2	do up	past · progressive	she			there			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

sewing star-flower shirts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sewing	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 shirts	amod
2	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flower	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 star	punct
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shirts	compound
5	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	gerund							vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

sewing moon-flower socks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flower	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 moon	punct
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 socks	compound
5	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sewing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	gerund		flower socks					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sock=Product

Option 3

weaving silk ribbons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	weaving	weave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ribbons	compound
3	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 weaving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weave	gerund		silk ribbons					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ribbon=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

just sitting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 sitting	advmod
2	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «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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