Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy: a kind poet lets…

Where does Cupid hang out at the theatre?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cupid · What happens: hang out · To what, where: theatre

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 308 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy: a kind poet lets in a wet boy who shoots him with an arrow» 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 hang	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hang	aux
3	Cupid	Cupid	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hang	nsubj
4	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 hang	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 theatre	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 theatre	det
8	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hang	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang out	present · do-support	Cupid			the theatre			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at theatre=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

Chilling way up high in the huge chandelier above all the seats, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chilling	obj
3	up	up	ADV	_	1 Chilling	advmod
4	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Chilling	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 chandelier	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chandelier	det
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chandelier	amod
8	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chilling	obl
9	above	above	ADP	_	12 seats	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 seats	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 seats	det
12	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 chandelier	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bro	punct
14	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seats	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill up	gerund		way		the huge chandelier above all seats and bro		high property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus way=Experiencer

Option 2

Hanging out up in the balcony

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Hanging	compound:prt
3	up	up	ADV	_	1 Hanging	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 balcony	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 balcony	det
6	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hanging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang out	gerund				the balcony			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in balcony=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Chilling in the big chandelier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 chandelier	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chandelier	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chandelier	amod
5	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chilling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	gerund				the big chandelier			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Sitting by the back door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	5 door	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 door	compound
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund						by the back door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location

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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