Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees…

did the monk fancy the nun or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monk · What happens: fancy · To what, where: nun

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 801 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees the sunset, meets the poor boy, and the old Bell tells its tales» 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 fancy	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monk	det
3	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fancy	nsubj
4	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nun	det
6	nun	nun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fancy	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 nun	appos
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fancy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past · do-support	the monk	the nun					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nun=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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah he thought about her a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 thought	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he	a lot				about her = she	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about she=Topic

Option 2

yeah he wrote her a song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 wrote	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrote	nsubj
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrote	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 song	det
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	he	a song	her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient song=Topic

Option 3

nah he ignored her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 ignored	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ignored	nsubj
3	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ignored	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	he	her = she					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah he just said hello

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hello	hello	INTJ	_	4 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=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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