Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk, part 34: Tuk dreams of…

ngl, what did the frog-lady keep croaking?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, lady keep · What happens: do, croak · To what, where: lady keep

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 307 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk, part 34: Tuk dreams of Danish towns and falls asleep» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 keep	det
6	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lady	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 frog	punct
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	compound
9	keep	keep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
10	croaking	croak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 keep	acl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	ngl	the lady keep					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keep=Eventuality
2	croak	gerund	the lady keep not said here						vn animal_sounds-38 «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 · ← Mova's choice

croak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

it is cold, it is cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cold	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cold	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cold	cop
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					cold property	tree rules
2	is	present	it					cold property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it is wet, it is wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wet	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wet	cop
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wet	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wet	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wet	cop
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wet	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					wet property	tree rules
2	is	present	it					wet property	tree rules

Option 4

wet, wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wet	punct
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wet	conj

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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