Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1:…

bro who was the one with the cough and the handkerchief?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be · To what, where: one

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 887 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1: twelve months arrive by coach, and storks gossip about a lost swan-princess» 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	5 one	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 one	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 cough	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cough	det
8	cough	cough	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 handkerchief	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 handkerchief	det
11	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cough	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bro	the one				with the cough and the handkerchief	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

yeah it was November, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 November	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 November	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 November	cop
4	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cap	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 cap	det
7	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 November	appos

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

Option 2

November, dude, total cold, he kept coughing into the handkerchief all night

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 kept	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dude	punct
3	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 November	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cold	punct
5	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cold	amod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dude	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 November	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	coughing	cough	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 kept	xcomp
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 handkerchief	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 handkerchief	det
13	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coughing	obl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coughing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	November						tree rules
2	cough	gerund	November not said here				night	into the handkerchief	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent into handkerchief=Stimulus

Option 3

bro, that was October, I think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 think	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 October	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 October	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 October	cop
5	October	October	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 bro	vocative
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 think	nsubj
8	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	October					tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	I					bro vocative	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

November, dude, total cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dude	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 November	punct
3	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cold	punct
5	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cold	amod
6	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dude	conj

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

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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