Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the…

What was the elf whispering about at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elf · What happens: be, whisper · To what, where: end

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 821 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the lover is murdered and the sister keeps his head» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 elf	det
4	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 elf	acl
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 whispering	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whispering	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the elf						tree rules
2	whisper speech: assert	gerund	the elf not said here				at the end	about property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=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

the murder in the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the evening in the arbor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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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