Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

what was she doing with the cross at the end?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: do · To what, where: end

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 893 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 104: robbers kill the priest and horse, and Helga, now a frog, buries him» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 doing	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 doing	nsubj
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 cross	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cross	det
7	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doing	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	she				at the end	with the cross	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

leaning it on a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 leaning	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 tree	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 leaning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	gerund		it		a tree			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on tree=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

planting it on the grave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	planting	plant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 planting	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 grave	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grave	det
5	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 planting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	gerund		it		the grave			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on grave=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

setting it in the sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 setting	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 sand	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sand	det
5	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 setting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	gerund		it		the sand			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sand=Destination

Option 4

kneeling and praying at the edge of the marsh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kneeling	kneel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 praying	cc
3	praying	pray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 kneeling	conj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 edge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 edge	det
6	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 praying	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 marsh	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 marsh	det
9	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 edge	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kneel	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pray	gerund				the edge of the marsh			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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