Test 11 · ★ · Andrew Lang's fairy book, The Prince and the Mermaid, part…

Dead funny, so the boy just sleeps on the mossy bank, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: sleep · To what, where: mossy bank

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1228 «Andrew Lang's fairy book, The Prince and the Mermaid, part 29: the prince runs from the mermaid and becomes a lion and a bear» 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 funny	amod
2	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sleeps	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	8 sleeps	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sleeps	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 sleeps	advmod
8	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 funny	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 bank	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bank	det
11	mossy	mossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bank	amod
12	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sleeps	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 yeah	punct
14	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 sleeps	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 funny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	the boy			the mossy bank			vn snooze-40.4-1 «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

Yeah, he sleeps in bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sleeps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sleeps	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sleeps	nsubj
4	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 bed	case
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	he			bed			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location

Option 2

Nah, he curls up with the bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 curls	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 curls	nsubj
4	curls	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 curls	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 bear	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bear	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 curls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curl up	present	he					with the bear	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, he sleeps in a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sleeps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sleeps	nsubj
4	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	he			a tree			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he lies down with the lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 lies	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lies	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lies	nsubj
4	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 lies	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 lion	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lion	det
8	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	present	he					with the lion; down property	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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