Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 102: Hel…

Did Helga actually listen to the Christ story, or was it just background noise?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Helga, story · What happens: listen, be · To what, where: background noise

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 891 «Andersen's Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 102: Helga grows wild, and the Vikings bring home a Christian priest.» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 listen	aux
2	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 listen	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 listen	advmod
4	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 story	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
7	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 story	compound
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listen	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 noise	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 noise	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 noise	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 noise	nsubj
13	just	just	ADV	_	15 noise	advmod
14	background	background	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 noise	compound
15	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listen	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past · do-support	Helga					to the Christ story; actually property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme
2	is a	past	story	background noise					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

Nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it went in one ear and out the other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 ear	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 ear	nummod
7	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 other	cc
9	out	out	ADP	_	11 other	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	it			one ear			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ear=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she was daydreaming about frogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 daydreaming	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 daydreaming	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 daydreaming	aux
5	daydreaming	daydream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 frogs	case
7	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 daydreaming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	daydream	past · progressive	she					about frogs	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about frog=Topic

Option 4

Yeah, she was kinda listening, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 listening	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 listening	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 listening	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 listening	aux
5	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	6 listening	advmod
6	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 listening	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past · progressive	she					mate vocative; kinda property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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