Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

ok so what did the priest hold up, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: priest · What happens: do, hold up · To what, where: priest

This is test 2 · ★ 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 priest	det
6	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 priest	acl:relcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 hold	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cap	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 cap	det
11	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 priest	appos
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the priest					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Eventuality
2	hold up	present	the priest not said here						vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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

a rod made of wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rod	det
2	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rod	acl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wood	case
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		a rod not said here				of wood	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2

a wooden cross tied with the priest's own red cord

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cross	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cross	amod
3	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cross	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	11 cord	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 priest	det
7	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cord	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 priest	case
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cord	amod
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cord	amod
11	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		a wooden cross not said here				with the priest's own red cord	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with cord=Co-Patient

Option 3

a bag of herbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 herbs	case
4	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bag	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a cross made of sticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cross	det
2	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cross	acl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 sticks	case
5	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		a cross not said here				of sticks	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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