Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk…

Ngl, what was the poor crow doing on the frozen ships?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, poor crow · What happens: be, do, freeze · To what, where: poor crow, frozen ships

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 282 «Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk dreams he is a lark, is caught by a sailor-boy and is sold to two schoolboys» 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	_	7 crow	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 crow	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 crow	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crow	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crow	amod
7	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ngl	appos
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 crow	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 ships	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ships	det
11	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 ships	amod
12	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 doing	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	Ngl	the poor crow		tree rules
2	do	gerund	the poor crow not said here		the frozen ships	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	freeze	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

singing alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 singing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund						alone property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

screaming with the gulls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 gulls	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gulls	det
4	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 screaming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	gerund						with the gulls	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gull=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

screaming on its own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 own	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 own	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 screaming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	gerund				its own			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on own=Location

Option 4

flying over the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 sea	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 flying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund				the sea			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=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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