Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wake…

Who was chilling at her window watching the lot, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: window · What happens: chill, watch · To what, where: window, lot

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 692 «Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wakes the dead and Death loses his prize, then a stone-cutter wishes for more» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 chilling	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chilling	aux
3	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 window	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 window	nmod:poss
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chilling	obl
7	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 window	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lot	det
9	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watching	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	3 chilling	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 chilling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	past · progressive				her window			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	watch	gerund	her window not said here	the lot					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme

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 Queen of the Immortals, who was watching from her high tower window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Immortals	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Immortals	det
5	Immortals	Immortal	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Queen	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 watching	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 watching	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 watching	aux
9	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Queen	acl
10	from	from	ADP	_	14 window	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 window	nmod:poss
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 window	amod
13	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 window	compound
14	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 watching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past · progressive	the Queen of the Immortals			her high tower window			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The Queen of the Immortals who had been sitting alone at her window all day

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Immortals	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Immortals	det
5	Immortals	Immortal	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Queen	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sitting	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sitting	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 sitting	aux
9	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 sitting	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 window	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 window	nmod:poss
13	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · perfect · progressive	the Queen of the Immortals			Queen's window	day	alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location

Option 3

The Servant of the Dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Servant	det
2	Servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Dead	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Dead	det
5	Dead	Dead	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Servant	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Queen of the Immortals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Immortals	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Immortals	det
5	Immortals	Immortal	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Queen	nmod

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

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