Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Lud…

Sick, what was all the town covered in when he woke up?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: sick, be, cover, wake up · To what, where: town

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1899 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Ludovine from the goblins, sleeps through his chances, and is carried off to the Low Countries.» 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	Sick	sick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 town	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 town	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 town	cop
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 town	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sick	conj
8	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 town	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 covered	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 woke	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 woke	nsubj
12	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sick	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 woke	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sick	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	is a	past		all town	tree rules
3	cover	participle		all town not said here	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	wake up	past	he		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

loads of flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 flowers	case
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 loads	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

houses wreathed with flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	wreathed	wreathe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 houses	acl
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 flowers	case
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wreathed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wreathe	participle		houses not said here				with flowers	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme

Option 3

a parade of noisy lorries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 parade	det
2	parade	parade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 lorries	case
4	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lorries	amod
5	lorries	lorry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 parade	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

ships all decked out in flags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 decked	nsubj
2	all	all	ADV	_	3 decked	advmod
3	decked	deck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 decked	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 flags	case
6	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 decked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deck out	participle	ships			flags		all property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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