Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

Dude, what did the bard keep singing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: bard, Dude · What happens: keep, sing · To what, where: Dude

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 889 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 100: the storks fly south, the Viking feasts and sails away again» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 keep	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bard	det
6	bard	bard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dude	conj
8	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the bard	Dude					tree rules
2	sing speech: express	gerund	Dude not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Gold flees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flees	nsubj
2	flees	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	present	Gold						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Wealth will shine forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shine	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 shine	aux
3	shine	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	forever	forever	ADV	_	3 shine	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	future	Wealth					forever property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Gold will flee away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flee	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 flee	aux
3	flee	flee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 flee	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee away	future	Gold					away property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Gold will flee away from the one who holds it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flee	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 flee	aux
3	flee	flee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 flee	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 one	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flee	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 holds	nsubj
9	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 one	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 holds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee away	future	Gold					from the one; away property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from one=Initial_Location
2	hold	present	the one	Gold					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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