Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a m…

Mate, who's the sad mum sitting by the poorly kid?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate, sad mum · What happens: be, sit · To what, where: sad mum

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» 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	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mum	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 mum	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mum	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mum	det
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mum	amod
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 mum	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 kid	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kid	det
11	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	12 kid	advmod
12	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mate and the sad mum	the sad mum					tree rules
2	sit	gerund	the sad mum not said here					by the kid	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by kid=Location

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 right answer

the mum with the ill kid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mum	det
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 kid	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kid	det
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kid	amod
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mum	nmod

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

Option 2

a sad mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mum	det
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mum	amod
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the poorly kid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kid	det
2	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	3 kid	advmod
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the dad with the sick son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dad	det
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 son	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 son	det
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 son	amod
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dad	nmod

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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