Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, By the Almshouse Window, part 2: a pasto…

confirmation is when you promise stuff to church right

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: confirmation, you · What happens: be, promise · To what, where: stuff, church

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 791 «Andersen's Tales, By the Almshouse Window, part 2: a pastor's dream of sinners, then an old maid watches children play while an angel carries a dead child to heaven» 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	confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 promise	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 promise	nsubj
5	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	ccomp
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 promise	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 church	case
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 promise	obl
9	right	right	ADV	_	5 promise	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	confirmation						tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	present	you	stuff				to church goal; right property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme to church=Goal

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

yeah, a white frock and a red shawl and then the whole family goes to dinner after the church service

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 frock	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 frock	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 frock	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frock	amod
5	frock	frock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shawl	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 shawl	det
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shawl	amod
9	shawl	shawl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frock	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 goes	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 goes	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 family	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 family	amod
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 goes	nsubj
15	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 frock	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 dinner	case
17	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 goes	obl
18	after	after	ADP	_	21 service	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 service	det
20	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 service	compound
21	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the whole family			dinner	after the church service; then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, a white frock and a red shawl, big day lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 frock	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 frock	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 frock	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frock	amod
5	frock	frock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shawl	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 shawl	det
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shawl	amod
9	shawl	shawl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frock	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 day	punct
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frock	conj
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 frock	discourse

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

Option 3

yeah, you make vows to God, sick day lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	vows	vow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 God	case
7	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 vows	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
9	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obl:unmarked
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 make	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	you	vows			day	to God	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

ya, you promise faith, it's a big deal fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ya	ya	INTJ	_	4 promise	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ya	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 promise	nsubj
4	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promise	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 promise	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fr	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fr	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fr	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fr	amod
11	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fr	compound
12	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promise	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present	you	faith					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent faith=Theme
2	is a	present	faith	a big deal fr					tree rules

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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