Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 67: Rudy learns Bab…

Was Rudy chillin' by the telegraph pole, or was he actually thinking?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chillin · What happens: think

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 856 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 67: Rudy learns Babette is away and climbs the mountains after her» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thinking	aux
2	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 chillin	compound
3	chillin	chillin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Was	nsubj
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 chillin	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 pole	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pole	det
7	telegraph	telegraph	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pole	compound
8	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Was	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thinking	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 thinking	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thinking	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thinking	nsubj
13	actually	actually	ADV	_	14 thinking	advmod
14	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 thinking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	chillin					actually property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

He was sitting and talking to a friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sitting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sitting	aux
3	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 talking	cc
5	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sitting	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 friend	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 friend	det
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	He						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	talk	gerund	He not said here					to a friend	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to friend=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was thinking hard and standing still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thinking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinking	aux
3	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 thinking	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 standing	cc
6	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 thinking	conj
7	still	still	ADV	_	6 standing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	He					hard property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stand	gerund	He not said here				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He was running fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 running	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 running	aux
3	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 running	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past · progressive	He					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He was counting the poles and waiting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 counting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 counting	aux
3	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 poles	det
5	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 counting	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 waiting	cc
7	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poles	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	past · progressive	He	the poles and waiting					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Theme

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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