Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 31: the shadow re…

Bet, what is Duus?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bet · What happens: be · To what, where: Duus

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 304 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 31: the shadow returns as a fine gentleman and boasts of what he saw» 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	Bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Duus	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 Duus	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Duus	cop
5	Duus	Duus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bet	appos
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bet	Duus					tree rules

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

Friends clinking glasses, drinking together and calling each other brothers in the old way

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	clinking	clink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Friends	acl
3	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clinking	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 drinking	punct
5	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 clinking	conj
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 drinking	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 calling	cc
8	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 clinking	conj
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 brothers	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 brothers	amod
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 calling	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 way	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 calling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	clink	gerund	Friends not said here	glasses				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location glass=Theme
2	drink	gerund	Friends not said here				together property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	gerund	Friends not said here		each other brothers	the old way		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient

Option 2

Guests singing and toasting their old teachers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Guests	acl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 toasting	cc
4	toasting	toast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 singing	conj
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 teachers	nmod:poss
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 teachers	amod
7	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 toasting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund	Guests not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	toast	gerund	Guests not said here	Guests's old teachers					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent teacher=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Friends clinking glasses and calling each other brothers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	clinking	clink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Friends	acl
3	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clinking	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 calling	cc
5	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 clinking	conj
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 brothers	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brothers	amod
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 calling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clink	gerund	Friends not said here	glasses					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location glass=Theme
2	call	gerund	Friends not said here		each other brothers				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient

Option 4

Friends dancing and calling each other sisters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dancing	nsubj
2	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 calling	cc
4	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 dancing	conj
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 sisters	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sisters	amod
7	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 calling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund	Friends						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	gerund	Friends not said here		each other sisters				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient

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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