Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier…

Who was the tiny sis, like, the one who was always dancing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: be, dance · To what, where: tiny sis

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sis	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sis	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sis	det
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sis	amod
5	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	10 one	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sis	appos
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 dancing	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dancing	aux
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 dancing	advmod
14	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 one	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sis	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the tiny sis					tree rules
2	dance	past · progressive	the one					always property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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

the baby sister who slept in the cradle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sister	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sister	compound
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 slept	nsubj
5	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sister	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cradle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cradle	det
8	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	the baby sister			the cradle			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cradle=Location

Option 2

young Lucy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Lucy	amod
2	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

little Mary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Mary	amod
2	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the eldest sister, the one who sang psalms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sister	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 sister	amod
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sister	appos
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sang	nsubj
8	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	acl:relcl
9	psalms	psalm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sang	obj

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