Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf: pro…
fr, who was praying for her at the very end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: pray · To what, where: end
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 832 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf: proud Inge tramples bread, sinks into the marsh and is punished» 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 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 praying | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 praying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 praying | aux |
| 5 | praying | pray | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 fr | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 praying | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 end | advmod |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 praying | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 fr | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past · progressive | fr | at the end | for her = she | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for she=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
the old cowherd
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cowherd | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cowherd | amod |
| 3 | cowherd | cowherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the child who wept for her, now grown up into an old woman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grown | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 wept | nsubj |
| 4 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 child | acl:relcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wept | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grown | punct |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 grown | advmod |
| 9 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 grown | compound:prt |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 woman | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grown | obl:agent |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | the child | for child | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | grow up | participle | the child | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
her mother
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 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the kid, now an old woman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kid | det |
| 2 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 woman | punct |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 woman | advmod |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kid | conj |
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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