Test 4 · ★ · Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving moth…

bro, where did she sneak off to at night, like which spot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: sneak off

This is test 4 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sneak	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sneak	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 sneak	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sneak	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sneak	nsubj
6	sneak	sneak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 sneak	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 off	fixed
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sneak	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spot	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 spot	case
13	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	14 spot	det
14	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sneak	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sneak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneak off	past · do-support	she				night	like which spot; bro vocative	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

to the grave by the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 grave	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grave	det
3	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 gate	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gate	det
6	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grave	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to the grave in the churchyard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 grave	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grave	det
3	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 churchyard	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 churchyard	det
6	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grave	nmod

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

Option 3

to the spot under the yew tree where her dead son lies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 spot	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spot	det
3	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	7 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
6	yew	yew	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spot	nmod
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 lies	advmod
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 lies	nmod:poss
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lies	amod
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lies	compound
12	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tree	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie		her = she						nom lie «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

to the graveyard behind the church where her little boy is buried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 graveyard	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 graveyard	det
3	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 church	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 church	det
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 graveyard	nmod
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 buried	advmod
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 boy	nmod:poss
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boy	amod
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 buried	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 buried	aux:pass
12	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 church	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	present · passive		her little boy					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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