Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, the sea spectre gives back…

Wait, where did they find her in the end, like proper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, they · What happens: wait, find · To what, where: her, end

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 find	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 find	nsubj
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 find	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 proper	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 proper	case
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 find	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past · do-support	they	her = she			in the end		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

In the church porch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 porch	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 porch	det
3	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 porch	compound
4	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Lying down by the altar in the church, after the clerk had rung the vesper bell

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 rung	csubj
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Lying	advmod
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 altar	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 altar	det
5	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 church	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 church	det
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rung	punct
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 rung	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 clerk	det
12	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rung	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rung	aux
14	rung	ring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bell	det
16	vesper	vesper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bell	compound
17	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rung	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	gerund				the church		by the altar; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by altar=Location
2	ring	past · perfect · passive		the clerk					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By the altar in church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 altar	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 altar	det
3	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 church	case
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 altar	nmod

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

Option 4

By the altar in church, with the sunlight falling across her still hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 altar	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 altar	det
3	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 church	case
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 altar	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sunlight	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 sunlight	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sunlight	det
9	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 altar	conj
10	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 sunlight	acl
11	across	across	ADP	_	14 hands	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hands	nmod:poss
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 hands	advmod
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 falling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund	the sunlight not said here			her hands			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across hand=Initial_Location

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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