Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to…

deadass, what was rudy standin' on up there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deadass · What happens: be · To what, where: rudy standin

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 859 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to the eagle's nest» 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	deadass	deadass	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 standin	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 standin	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 standin	cop
5	rudy	rudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 standin	amod
6	standin	standin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 deadass	appos
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 standin	punct
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 there	case
9	up	up	ADV	_	10 there	advmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 standin	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 deadass	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	deadass	rudy standin					tree rules

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 cliff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

swaying ladders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	swaying	sway	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 swaying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sway	gerund		ladders					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ladder=Theme

Option 3

a frozen tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tree	det
2	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tree	amod
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

the swaying ladders over the empty abyss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ladders	det
2	swaying	sway	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 ladders	amod
3	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	7 abyss	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 abyss	det
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 abyss	amod
7	abyss	abyss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ladders	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sway	gerund							vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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