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

bro that criminal Matz screams every night lmao

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: criminal Matz · What happens: scream · To what, where: bro

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 screams	obj
3	criminal	criminal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Matz	amod
4	Matz	Matz	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 screams	nsubj
5	screams	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 bro	acl:relcl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 lmao	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lmao	compound
8	lmao	lmao	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 screams	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	present	criminal Matz	bro					tree rules

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

fr, he burnt a barn and the cow kept mooing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burnt	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burnt	nsubj
4	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 barn	det
6	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burnt	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kept	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	nsubj
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burnt	conj
11	mooing	moo	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	burnt	past	he	fr	tree rules
2	keep	past	the cow		tree rules
3	moo	gerund	the cow not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

fr, cause he burnt a yard and the dog kept howling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burnt	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 burnt	punct
3	cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 burnt	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 burnt	nsubj
5	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 yard	det
7	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burnt	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kept	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kept	nsubj
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 burnt	conj
12	howling	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	burnt	past	fr	a yard	tree rules
2	keep	past	the dog		tree rules
3	howl	gerund	the dog not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

fr, he lit a shed and the dogs wouldn't stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lit	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lit	nsubj
4	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shed	det
6	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lit	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stop	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dogs	det
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stop	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 stop	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 stop	advmod
12	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	past	he	fr					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shed=Product
2	not stop	would	the dogs						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

fr, cause he set a whole yard on fire at night and then the dog kept howling for hours after

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cause	punct
3	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fr	conj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 set	nsubj
5	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 yard	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 yard	amod
8	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 fire	case
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 night	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kept	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 kept	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dog	det
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kept	nsubj
17	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 set	conj
18	howling	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 kept	xcomp
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 hours	case
20	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 howling	obl
21	after	after	ADP	_	18 howling	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	set	past	fr and cause	a whole yard	fire	night	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent yard=Theme on fire=Destination
2	keep	past	the dog			then	tree rules
3	howl after	gerund	the dog not said here			hour	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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