Test 10 · ★ · Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest…

what did he see on the bank when the moon came out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, moon · What happens: see, come out · To what, where: bank

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1216 «Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest and a promise» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 see	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 bank	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bank	det
7	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 moon	det
10	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	advcl
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · do-support	he			the bank			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	come out	past	the moon					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

a dark shape near the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shape	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shape	amod
3	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shape	nmod

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

Option 2

a golden-haired woman standing half hidden by the ferns, her hair shining wet in the moonlight

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 woman	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 golden	punct
4	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 woman	acl
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 standing	obj
8	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 half	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 ferns	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ferns	det
11	ferns	fern	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hidden	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hair	punct
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hair	nmod:poss
14	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 woman	conj
15	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 hair	acl
16	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shining	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 moonlight	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 moonlight	det
19	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shining	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund	a golden haired woman and her hair not said here	half			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus
2	hide	participle		half not said here		by the ferns	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fern=Location
3	shine	gerund	her hair not said here		the moonlight	wet property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonlight=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a golden-haired woman by the ferns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 woman	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 golden	punct
4	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 ferns	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ferns	det
8	ferns	fern	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 woman	nmod

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

Option 4

a tall golden-haired woman with a white dress and bare feet, standing in the shallows of the pool

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woman	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 golden	punct
5	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 dress	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dress	det
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dress	amod
10	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 woman	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 feet	cc
12	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 feet	amod
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dress	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 standing	punct
15	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 woman	acl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 shallows	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shallows	det
18	shallows	shallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 standing	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 pool	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pool	det
21	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shallows	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund	a tall golden haired woman with a white dress and bare feet not said here			the shallows of the pool			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shallow=Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1216-pg3282-part17/t10/