Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, the sea spectre gives back…

Did the clerk find her in the morning or the evening?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clerk · What happens: find · To what, where: her

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 795 «Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, the sea spectre gives back her soul» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clerk	det
3	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	nsubj
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 morning	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 morning	det
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 evening	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 evening	det
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 morning	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	the clerk	her = she			morning		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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

Towards evening, when he rang out the hymn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Towards	toward	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 evening	compound
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rang	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rang	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 rang	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rang	nsubj
6	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 rang	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hymn	det
9	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring out	past	he	the hymn			evening		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme

Option 2

Early at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 dawn	case
3	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Early	obl

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

Option 3

In the morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Towards evening, as he went to toll the bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Towards	toward	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 evening	compound
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 went	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 toll	mark
8	toll	toll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 went	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bell	det
10	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 toll	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he				evening		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	toll	to-infinitive	he not said here	the bell					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme

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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