Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a m…

Wait, what did Night want her to do first?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Night, her · What happens: wait, want, do · To what, where: her

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 want	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
5	Night	Night	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 want	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 do	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want	past · do-support	Night	her = she		tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	her = she not said here		first property	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

play all the tunes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 tunes	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tunes	det
4	tunes	tune	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 play	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	imperative	you not said here	all tunes					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

sing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

sing all the songs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 songs	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 songs	det
4	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	imperative	you not said here	all songs					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 4

sing them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=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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