Test 10 · ★ · Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving moth…

what did she hold at the sick-bed, like the hand or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: hold · To what, where: sick bed

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 809 «Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving mother slips out to her son's grave at night and meets a stranger» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 hold	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hold	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hold	nsubj
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	9 bed	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bed	det
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bed	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 sick	punct
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hand	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 hand	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hand	det
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 what	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 hand	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past · do-support	she			the sick bed		like the hand	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Theme at bed=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 · ← Mova's choice

his hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hand	nmod:poss
2	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cloth	det
2	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his pale hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hand	nmod:poss
2	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hand	amod
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

her son's cold hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 son	nmod:poss
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hand	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 son	case
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hand	amod
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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