Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

sus, what saying did the smart men write down?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sus · What happens: say, write down · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 write	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saying	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 saying	obj
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 write	csubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 write	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
7	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	amod
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 write	nsubj
9	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 write	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 write	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	write down	past · do-support	sus						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

love is a life-giver for the sick lord lying in the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giver	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 giver	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 giver	det
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giver	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 life	punct
6	giver	giver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 lord	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lord	det
9	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lord	amod
10	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giver	nmod
11	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 lord	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hall	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hall	det
14	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	love	a life giver				for the sick lord	tree rules
2	lie	gerund	the sick lord not said here			the hall			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location

Option 2

blood is a life-giver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giver	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 giver	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 giver	det
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giver	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 life	punct
6	giver	giver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	blood	a life giver					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

love is a life-giver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giver	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 giver	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 giver	det
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giver	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 life	punct
6	giver	giver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	love	a life giver					tree rules

Option 4

love is a life-giver, as the learned men wrote on the wall

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giver	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 giver	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 giver	det
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giver	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 life	punct
6	giver	giver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wrote	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 wrote	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 men	det
10	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 men	amod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wrote	nsubj
12	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 giver	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 wall	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wall	det
15	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wrote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	love	a life giver		tree rules
2	learn	participle				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	write	past	the learned men		the wall	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on wall=Destination

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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