Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels…

wait, where did he hide from the storm?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, hide · To what, where: storm

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 798 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels: a vain beetle wants golden shoes and finds only mud» 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 hide	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 hide	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hide	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hide	nsubj
6	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	advcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 storm	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 storm	det
9	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hide	obl
10	?	?	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	hide	past · do-support	he			the storm			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from storm=Beneficiary

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

Under a wooden bench outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	4 bench	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bench	det
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bench	amod
4	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	outside	outside	ADV	_	4 bench	advmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Beneath a dry old flower pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beneath	beneath	ADP	_	6 pot	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pot	det
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pot	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pot	amod
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pot	compound
6	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

In damp linen on the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 linen	case
2	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 linen	amod
3	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 linen	nmod

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

Option 4

Inside a folded piece of wet linen lying on the grass near the stable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Inside	inside	ADP	_	4 piece	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 piece	det
3	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 piece	amod
4	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 linen	case
6	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 linen	amod
7	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 piece	nmod
8	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 linen	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 grass	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grass	det
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lying	obl
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 stable	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stable	det
14	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fold	participle							vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	lie	gerund	wet linen not said here			the grass		near the stable	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=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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