Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 4: the boat sin…

what could she hear at sunset instead of bells

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: hear

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 793 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 4: the boat sinks, and Anne Lisbeth walks home alone by the 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	4 hear	obj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 sunset	case
6	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obl
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	9 bells	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	could	she				sunset	instead bells	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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

frogs croaking loudly in the marshes below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	croaking	croak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 frogs	acl
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 croaking	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 marshes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 marshes	det
6	marshes	marsh	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 croaking	obl
7	below	below	ADV	_	6 marshes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	croak	gerund	frogs not said here			the marshes		loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

dogs barking in the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 dogs	acl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 village	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 village	det
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 barking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	gerund	dogs not said here			the village			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

church bells in the distance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bells	compound
2	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 distance	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 distance	det
5	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bells	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

frogs croaking in the marshes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	croaking	croak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 frogs	acl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 marshes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 marshes	det
5	marshes	marsh	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 croaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	croak	gerund	frogs not said here			the marshes			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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