Test 4 · ★ · Tales (pg503), Hansel and Grettel, part 1: lost in the woo…

Lol, what were the kids doing when the mum said to sleep?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, mum · What happens: be, do, say, sleep · To what, where: kids · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1472 «Tales (pg503), Hansel and Grettel, part 1: lost in the wood after the pebbles and the crumbs» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 doing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kids	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 kids	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kids	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kids	det
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 doing	nsubj
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 said	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mum	det
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doing	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 sleep	mark
13	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the kids	tree rules
2	do	gerund	the kids		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the mum		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sleep	to-infinitive	the mum not said here		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

Sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Fighting over the last bit of bread by the warm fireplace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	5 bit	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bit	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bit	amod
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fighting	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 bread	case
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 fireplace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fireplace	det
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fireplace	amod
11	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fighting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	gerund						by the warm fireplace; over the last bit of bread	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over bit=Theme

Option 3

Playing by the hearth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 hearth	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hearth	det
4	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund						by the hearth	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nodding off by the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nodding	nod	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Nodding	compound:prt
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nodding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nod off	gerund						by the fire	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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