Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christm…

why was the nurse snoring away, lol?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nurse · What happens: snore away

This is test 13 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 snoring	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snoring	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nurse	det
4	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snoring	nsubj
5	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 snoring	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 snoring	punct
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 snoring	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 snoring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snore away	past · progressive	the nurse					away property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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

because everything in the house told of happiness and blessing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 told	mark
2	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 told	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 everything	nmod
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 happiness	case
8	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blessing	cc
10	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 happiness	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	everything					of happiness and blessing	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

because everything felt happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	3 felt	mark
2	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	everything					happy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

because the baby was sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 sleeping	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 baby	det
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleeping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sleeping	aux
5	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past · progressive	the baby						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

because the whole night seemed full of peace and gentle song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 seemed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 night	amod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seemed	nsubj
5	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 song	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 peace	case
8	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gentle	cc
10	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 full	conj
11	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seemed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the whole night	full song					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme song=Attribute

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