Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier…

What did the boy's family, like, do every Sunday?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: family

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 299 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier leaves and the old man dies» 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 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 family	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 boy	case
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 do	mark
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	conj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 Sunday	det
12	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 do	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the boy's family					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Eventuality
2	do	infinitive					sunday		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

read books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here	books					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 2

prayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	prayed	pray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	participle							vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

sung their Psalms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 Psalms	nmod:poss
3	Psalms	psalm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sung	obj

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

Option 4

sang their hymns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hymns	nmod:poss
3	hymns	hymn	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past		their hymns					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme
2	hymn		their = they						nom hymn «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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