Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christm…

what was shining over the baby, like a proper net?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: shine · To what, where: baby

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 867 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christmas storm uproots the oak as he dreams of summer and of all the small plants rising up with him» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 shining	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shining	aux
3	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 baby	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baby	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shining	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 net	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 net	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 net	det
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 net	amod
11	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shining	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 shining	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	past · progressive				the baby		like a proper net	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over baby=Location

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

a star

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 star	det
2	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

moonlight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a net of shining stars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 net	det
2	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 shining	mark
4	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 net	acl
5	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shining	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund	a net not said here	stars					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent star=Theme

Option 4

a cloud of golden dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cloud	det
2	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 dust	case
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dust	amod
5	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cloud	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cloud			golden dust					nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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