Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Christian the Smith: the smith guards the c…

yo, what's Christian doing at midnight, fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, do · To what, where: fr

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1623 «Grimm's Tales, Christian the Smith: the smith guards the church and frees the princess» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 Christian	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 Christian	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Christian	cop
5	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 Christian	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 midnight	case
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fr	punct
10	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Christian	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						christian property	tree rules
2	do	gerund		fr			midnight		vn act-114-1 «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

he's asleep

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	3 asleep	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	cop
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					asleep property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he's stood at the altar, reading his book

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	3 stood	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	aux:pass
3	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 altar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 altar	det
6	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reading	punct
8	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stood	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 book	nmod:poss
10	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reading	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present · passive		he		the altar			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at altar=Destination
2	read	gerund		his book					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 3

he's lying on the pews, snoring

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	3 lying	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lying	aux
3	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 pews	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pews	det
6	pews	pew	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lying	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 snoring	punct
8	snoring	snoring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pews	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present · progressive	he			the pews and snoring			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pew=Location

Option 4

he's kneeling by the chest, praying

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	3 kneeling	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kneeling	aux
3	kneeling	kneel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 chest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chest	det
6	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kneeling	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 praying	punct
8	praying	pray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 kneeling	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kneel	present · progressive	he					by the chest	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by chest=Location
2	pray	gerund	he not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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