Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 71: Rudy captures t…

Bro, what did she say the railway guys were doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, railway guys · What happens: say, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 860 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 71: Rudy captures the eaglet and brings it to the mill, while the Ice Maiden mocks the railway» 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	6 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 guys	det
8	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 guys	compound
9	guys	guy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 doing	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 doing	aux
11	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	she					Bro vocative	tree rules
2	do	past · progressive	the railway guys						vn act-114-1 «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

Digging holes for fun.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Digging	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 fun	case
4	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Digging	obl
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Digging	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	gerund		holes				for fun	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent hole=Result for fun=Beneficiary

Option 2

Blasting rock inside the cliff like silly little boys.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blasting	blast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blasting	obj
3	inside	inside	ADP	_	5 cliff	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cliff	det
5	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blasting	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 boys	case
7	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boys	amod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boys	amod
9	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cliff	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Blasting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blast	gerund		rock		the cliff like silly little boys			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=Theme

Option 3

Drilling mountains, playing like children in the snow.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drilling	drill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Drilling	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 playing	punct
4	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Drilling	conj
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 children	case
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 playing	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 snow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snow	det
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 playing	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Drilling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drill	gerund		mountains					vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient
2	play	gerund				the snow		like children	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Playing at work underground like moles, digging tunnels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 work	case
3	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Playing	obl
4	underground	underground	ADV	_	1 Playing	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 moles	case
6	moles	mole	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Playing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 digging	punct
8	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Playing	conj
9	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 digging	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund				work		like moles; underground property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dig	gerund		tunnels					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tunnel=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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