Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Prince…

Ngl, how were the suitors lined up at the gate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, line up · To what, where: suitors, gate

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1748 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Princess with a crow, a shoe and mud» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 suitors	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 suitors	advmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 suitors	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 suitors	det
6	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ngl	appos
7	lined	line	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 suitors	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 lined	compound:prt
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 gate	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gate	det
11	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lined	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the suitors					tree rules
2	line up	participle		the suitors not said here		the gate			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

rows of six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 six	case
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 rows	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

in one line

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 line	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 line	nummod
3	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

packed in tight rows of ten, each pressed against the next

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 rows	case
3	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rows	amod
4	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 packed	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 ten	case
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 rows	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pressed	punct
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 pressed	nsubj:pass
9	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rows	acl
10	against	against	ADP	_	12 next	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 next	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack	participle				tight rows of ten			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in row=Destination
2	press	participle · passive	tight rows of ten not said here	each				against the next	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

rows of six standing close together by the gate wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 six	case
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 rows	nmod
4	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 rows	acl
5	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 together	advmod
6	together	together	ADV	_	4 standing	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 wall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wall	det
9	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wall	compound
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 standing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund	rows of six not said here					by the gate wall; together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by wall=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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