Test 15 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

dude, where are the storks hiding those feathers?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: storks · What happens: be, hide · To what, where: feathers

This is test 15 · ★ 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hiding	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 hiding	advmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 where	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 storks	det
6	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hiding	nsubj
7	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 dude	conj
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 feathers	det
9	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hiding	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						where property	tree rules
2	hide	gerund	the storks	that feathers					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient

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

in the reeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 reeds	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reeds	det
3	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

in the old nest by the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	4 nest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nest	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nest	amod
4	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 lake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lake	det
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nest	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

in their nest on the moor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 nest	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nest	nmod:poss
3	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 moor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moor	det
6	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nest	nmod

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

Option 4

on the moor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 moor	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moor	det
3	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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