Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born…

Dead funny, who cried hurrahs for the wedding?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: cry · To what, where: hurrahs

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 funny	amod
2	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cried	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 cried	nsubj
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	hurrahs	hurrah	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cried	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 wedding	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wedding	det
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		hurrahs				for the wedding	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic

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

The local farmers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmers	det
2	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 farmers	amod
3	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

The street boys, who had been waiting all morning by the gate with their caps

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
2	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boys	compound
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 waiting	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 waiting	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 waiting	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 waiting	aux
8	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 boys	acl:relcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waiting	obl:unmarked
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 gate	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gate	det
13	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waiting	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 caps	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 caps	nmod:poss
16	caps	cap	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · perfect · progressive	the street boys				morning	by the gate; with boys's caps	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by gate=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The street boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
2	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boys	compound
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

The neighbours all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 neighbours	det
2	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	2 neighbours	advmod

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

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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