Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born…

What did the dog reckon about being a house-dog?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog · What happens: reckon, be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1619 «Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born and learns about the sun, the moon and the weather» 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	5 reckon	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	11 dog	case
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 dog	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dog	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dog	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 house	punct
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the dog						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
2	is	gerund						about a house dog	tree rules

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

He slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slept	nsubj
2	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	He						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He liked the yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 yard	det
4	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	He	the yard					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot yard=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He lay by the stove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 stove	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stove	det
5	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	He					by the stove	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by stove=Location

Option 4

He thought it was a fine life, lying all day by the warm stove

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 life	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 life	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 life	det
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 life	amod
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lying	punct
9	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	advcl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lying	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 stove	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stove	det
14	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stove	amod
15	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a fine life			tree rules
3	lie	gerund	He not said here		day	by the warm stove	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by stove=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.

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