Test 5 · ★ · Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving moth…

did her husband notice she was gone, or was he just snoring?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: husband notice, he, her · What happens: be, snore, notice

This is test 5 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 notice	aux
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 notice	nmod:poss
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 notice	compound
4	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	nsubj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gone	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	cop
7	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 snoring	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 snoring	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 snoring	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 snoring	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 snoring	advmod
13	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 gone	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	her husband notice	gone property	tree rules
2	snore	past · progressive	he		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	notice		her = she		nom notice «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

he was up all night reading

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 was	compound:prt
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 reading	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reading	compound
6	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be up	past	he						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he was out cold asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 out	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 out	cop
3	out	out	ADV	_	root	root
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 asleep	amod
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 out	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					out property	tree rules

Option 3

he slept right through it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slept	nsubj
2	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	right	right	ADV	_	2 slept	advmod
4	through	through	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	he			it		right property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he had drunk a lot of wine and slept until the morning light came in

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drunk	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drunk	aux
3	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lot	det
5	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drunk	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 wine	case
7	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lot	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 slept	cc
9	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drunk	conj
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 light	det
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 light	compound
13	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 slept	advcl
15	in	in	ADV	_	14 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	drink	past · perfect	he	a lot of wine	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
2	sleep	past	he not said here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come in	past	the morning light		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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