Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier…

Mate, was the old house buzzing with noise or dead quiet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old house · What happens: be, buzz · To what, where: old house

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 house	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 house	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 house	amod
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 house	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 noise	case
9	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buzzing	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 quiet	cc
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 quiet	amod
12	quiet	quiet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 noise	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 house	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old house				Mate vocative	tree rules
2	buzz	gerund	the old house not said here					with noise or dead quiet	vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location with noise=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 · ← Mova's choice

buzzing with the noise of many children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 noise	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 noise	det
4	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 buzzing	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 children	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 children	amod
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 noise	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	gerund						with the noise of many children	vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location with noise=Theme
2	noise		many children						nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

busy and loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 loud	cc
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 busy	conj

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

Option 3

a loud party of guests laughing and dancing all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 party	det
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 party	amod
3	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 guests	case
5	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 party	nmod
6	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 guests	acl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dancing	cc
8	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 laughing	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dancing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund	guests not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dance	gerund	guests not said here				night		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

dead quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 quiet	amod
2	quiet	quiet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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