Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden…

Mate, who was the one who got the letter in the rain?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, one · What happens: be, get · To what, where: one, letter, rain

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 872 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden wedding and the boy's flight through the seasons» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 one	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 letter	det
10	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 rain	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rain	det
13	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate	the one					tree rules
2	get	past	the one	the letter		the rain			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus

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

the boy with the wooden cart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 cart	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cart	det
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cart	amod
6	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the girl with the dust-bin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	7 bin	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bin	det
5	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bin	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 dust	punct
7	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the girl who was standing by the gate in the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 standing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 standing	aux
5	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 girl	acl:relcl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 gate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gate	det
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 rain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rain	det
11	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	the girl			the rain		by the gate	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by gate=Location

Option 4

the old woman who lived across the street from the postman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 woman	acl:relcl
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 street	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 street	det
8	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 postman	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 postman	det
11	postman	postman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the old woman			the street		from the postman	vn exist-47.1-1 «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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