Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 5: Anne Lisbeth sees…

Wait, why do ghosts need to go to the churchyard, mate?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ghosts · What happens: wait, need, go · To what, where: churchyard

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 794 «Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 5: Anne Lisbeth sees a ghostly child and digs a grave by the sea before dawn» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 need	advmod
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
5	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	nsubj
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 need	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 churchyard	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 churchyard	det
11	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 churchyard	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	need	present · do-support	ghosts		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	ghosts not said here	the churchyard and mate	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to churchyard=Initial_Location

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 right answer

So they can rest in the blessed ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 rest	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rest	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rest	aux
4	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
7	blessed	blessed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ground	amod
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	can	they			the blessed ground			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Location

Option 2

To scare people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 scare	mark
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	to-infinitive		people					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Because the sea is too cold for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 cold	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cold	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cold	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sea					for them = they; cold property	tree rules

Option 4

To find their old family bones again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bones	nmod:poss
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bones	amod
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bones	compound
6	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	2 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	to-infinitive		their old family bones			again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Topic

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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