Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress co…

Bro, where'd the boy chill while Martha got her home?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Martha · What happens: get · To what, where: home

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 844 «Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress collapses in the street and tells her sad story» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chill	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 chill	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 chill	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chill	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chill	compound
7	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	conj
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 got	mark
9	Martha	Martha	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chill	advcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 home	nmod:poss
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Martha	Martha's home					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer home=Stimulus

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

by the bridge with the cart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 bridge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bridge	det
3	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 cart	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cart	det
6	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bridge	nmod

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

Option 2

sitting on the riverbank with the washing tubs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 riverbank	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 riverbank	det
4	riverbank	riverbank	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sitting	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 tubs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tubs	det
7	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tubs	compound
8	tubs	tub	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund				the riverbank		with the washing tubs	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on riverbank=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

by the river with the washing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 river	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 washing	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 washing	det
6	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 river	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

under the old oak tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	under	under	ADP	_	5 tree	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tree	amod
4	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	compound
5	tree	tree	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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