Test 8 · ★ · Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, part 3: the angel's flower and the…

what was the skipper doing while the boy steered, bro?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: skipper, boy · What happens: be, do, steer · To what, where: bro

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 792 «Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, part 3: the angel's flower and the neglected boy who goes to sea» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 skipper	det
4	skipper	skipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 skipper	acl
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 steered	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 steered	nsubj
9	steered	steer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 steered	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the skipper		tree rules
2	do	gerund	the skipper not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	steer	past	the boy	bro	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bro=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

slept below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	below	below	ADV	_	1 slept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	participle						below property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

sat over the grog-can

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 grog	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grog	det
4	grog	grog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sat	obl
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 sat	punct
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 sat	advcl

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

Option 3

smoked a pipe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	smoked	smoke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pipe	det
3	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 smoked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smoke	past		a pipe					vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source

Option 4

was asleep in his bunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asleep	cop
2	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 bunk	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bunk	nmod:poss
5	bunk	bunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				his bunk		asleep property	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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