Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Land of Immortality: the prince rides a ri…

Dead giveaway, where was the queen when he found her?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, find · To what, where: queen, her

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 691 «Fairy Book, The Land of Immortality: the prince rides a ring to the world's end and finds a queen who wakes» 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 giveaway	amod
2	giveaway	giveaway	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 queen	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 queen	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 queen	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 queen	det
7	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 giveaway	appos
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 found	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 queen	acl:relcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 giveaway	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the queen					tree rules
2	find	past	he	her = she					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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

Asleep in her room with her sewing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 room	amod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 room	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 room	nmod:poss
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 sewing	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sewing	nmod:poss
7	sewing	sewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew		her = she						nom sewing «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Standing in the tower, looking out at the river far below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 tower	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tower	det
4	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Standing	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 looking	punct
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Standing	conj
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 looking	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looking	obl
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 below	advmod
12	below	below	ADV	_	6 looking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund				the tower			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tower=Location
2	look out	gerund				the river		below property	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

In the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 garden	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 garden	det
3	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Sitting by the fire in the hall

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	_	4 fire	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl

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