Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a m…

Lol, how did she cross that lake, then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: cross · To what, where: lake

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 cross	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cross	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 cross	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cross	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cross	nsubj
6	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 lake	det
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cross	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 then	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 cross	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cross	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	past · do-support	she	that lake			then		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

the water bore her up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bore	nsubj
3	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bore	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 bore	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear up	past	the water	her = she					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a little boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the ice held her up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ice	det
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 held	nsubj
3	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 held	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 held	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	past	the ice	her = she					vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=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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