Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care t…

Who was it in the water with the bench nearly going over, the mum?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bench · What happens: be, go over · To what, where: water

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 843 «Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care takes the goloshes, the mayor scolds a washer-woman's boy, and bad news reaches the laundress» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 water	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 water	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 water	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 bench	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bench	det
9	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	nmod
10	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	11 going	advmod
11	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 bench	acl
12	over	over	ADV	_	11 going	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mum	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mum	det
15	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 water	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				the water and the mum		with the bench	tree rules
2	go over	gerund	the bench not said here					nearly, over property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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

the cook's helper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helper	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 cook	case
4	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Martha

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Martha	Martha	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the washer-woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
2	washer	washer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 woman	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 washer	punct
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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