Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

no cap, what did the princess lay her head on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cap · What happens: do, lie · To what, where: princess, head

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 890 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 101: the storks plan to hide the swan feathers» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cap	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	8 lay	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 lay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	no cap	the princess					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality
2	lie	past	no cap	princess's head					vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the breast of a mummy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 breast	det
2	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 mummy	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mummy	det
5	mummy	mummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breast	nmod

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

Option 2

the breast of a statue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 breast	det
2	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 statue	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 statue	det
5	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breast	nmod

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

Option 3

the cold arm of a king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 arm	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 arm	amod
3	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arm	nmod

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

Option 4

the breast of a mummy lying in the sand beneath the sphinx

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 breast	det
2	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 mummy	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mummy	det
5	mummy	mummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breast	nmod
6	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 mummy	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sand	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sand	det
9	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lying	obl
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	12 sphinx	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sphinx	det
12	sphinx	sphinx	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund	a mummy not said here			the sand		beneath the sphinx	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sand=Location

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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