Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince shows his true self…

Tbh, how did the ladies block the view?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: ladies · What happens: do, block · To what, where: view

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1734 «Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince shows his true self and the Princess is sent away to sing outside» 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	Tbh	tbh	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ladies	det
6	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 block	nsubj
7	block	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 view	det
9	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 block	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						tbh property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	block	present	the ladies	the view					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer view=Theme

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

spread their dresses out in front and whispered loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dresses	nmod:poss
3	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 spread	obj
4	out	out	ADV	_	1 spread	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 front	case
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 spread	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 whispered	cc
8	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 spread	conj
9	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	8 whispered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread out	imperative	you not said here	their dresses		front		out property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dress=Theme in front=Destination
2	whisper speech: assert	past	you not said here					loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

spread their dresses out in front

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dresses	nmod:poss
3	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 spread	obj
4	out	out	ADV	_	1 spread	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 front	case
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread out	imperative	you not said here	their dresses		front		out property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dress=Theme in front=Destination

Option 3

held up their skirts in the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 skirts	amod
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 held	compound:prt
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 skirts	nmod:poss
4	skirts	skirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skirts	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	participle							vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

spread their dresses out in front while the Emperor was watching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dresses	nmod:poss
3	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 spread	obj
4	out	out	ADV	_	1 spread	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 front	case
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 spread	obl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 watching	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Emperor	det
9	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 watching	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 watching	aux
11	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 spread	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread out	imperative	you not said here	their dresses		front		out property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dress=Theme in front=Destination
2	watch	past · progressive	the Emperor						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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