Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 68: Rudy reaches In…

Wait, what was covering the bridges and houses?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, cover · To what, where: bridges

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 857 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 68: Rudy reaches Interlachen, wins the shooting match and meets Babette again» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 covering	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 covering	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 covering	aux
5	covering	cover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bridges	det
7	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 covering	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 houses	cc
9	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bridges	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cover	past · progressive		the bridges and houses					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bridge=Destination

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

painted flags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flags	amod
2	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

verses and inscriptions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 inscriptions	cc
3	inscriptions	inscription	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 verses	conj

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

Option 3

carved wooden birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 birds	amod
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 birds	amod
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

bright flags and garlands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flags	amod
2	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 garlands	cc
4	garlands	garland	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flags	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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