Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Empe…

What made all the ladies start gurgling, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ladies · What happens: make, start, gurgle, innit

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1743 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Emperor hears of the bird, and the little kitchenmaid leads the Court to her in the wood» 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	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 ladies	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ladies	det
5	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 start	nsubj
6	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 made	ccomp
7	gurgling	gurgle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 start	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 start	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	make	past		tree rules
2	start	present	all ladies	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	gurgle	gerund	all ladies not said here	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	innit	infinitive	all ladies not said here	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 · ← Mova's choice

drinking the palace wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wine	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wine	compound
4	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drinking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund		the palace wine					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

holding water in their mouths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 holding	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 mouths	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mouths	nmod:poss
5	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 holding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund		water		their mouths			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in mouth=Location

Option 3

holding water in their mouths like the chaplain said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 said	csubj
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 holding	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 mouths	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mouths	nmod:poss
5	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 holding	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 chaplain	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chaplain	det
8	chaplain	chaplain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mouths	nmod
9	said	say	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	hold	gerund		water		their mouths like the chaplain			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in mouth=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	holding						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

holding water in their mouths and copying the bird all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 holding	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 mouths	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mouths	nmod:poss
5	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 holding	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 copying	cc
7	copying	copy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 holding	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 copying	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 copying	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund		water		their mouths			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in mouth=Location
2	copy	gerund		the bird			night		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme

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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