Test 6 · ★ · Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving moth…

what was the mum even saying about God, was she salty?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum, she · What happens: be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	6 saying	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saying	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mum	det
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saying	nsubj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 saying	advmod
6	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 God	case
8	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 salty	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 God	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 salty	cop
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 salty	nsubj
12	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saying	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	past	the mum					say property	tree rules
2	is	past	she					about God; salty property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

God does not know it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 know	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 know	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	God	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

God is silent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 silent	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 silent	cop
3	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	God					silent property	tree rules

Option 3

God has forsaken us now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 forsaken	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 forsaken	aux
3	forsaken	forsake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 forsaken	obj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 forsaken	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forsake	present · perfect	God	us			now		tree rules

Option 4

God's gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gone	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 God	case
3	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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