Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending,…

The old couple, were they like young lovers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 296 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending, Remembrance flies through the seasons and the old couple wear golden crowns» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 couple	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 couple	amod
3	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 like	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 couple	punct
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 like	cop
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
7	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lovers	amod
9	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 like	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					the old couple obl:unmarked; like property	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

Yeah, they still held hands like kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 held	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 held	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 held	advmod
5	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 held	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 kids	case
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hands	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	they	hands			still	like kids	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

Option 2

Nah, just friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 friends	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 friends	advmod
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they'd been married fifty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 married	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 married	nsubj:pass
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 married	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 married	aux:pass
6	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 married	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past · perfect · passive		they			year		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, sort of

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 sort	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sort	punct
3	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 sort	fixed

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

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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