Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter: Helga i…

no way, what was the mum doing on the water lilies?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: way, mum · What happens: be, do · To what, where: mum, water lilies

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 894 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter: Helga is freed and finds her mother» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mum	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 mum	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mum	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mum	det
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 way	nmod
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 mum	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 lilies	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lilies	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lilies	compound
12	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 doing	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	no way	the mum					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the mum not said here			the water lilies			vn act-114-1 «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

just lying there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 lying	advmod
2	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 lying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund				there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

just sleeping there with her eyes closed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 sleeping	advmod
2	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 sleeping	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 eyes	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sleeping	obl
7	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 eyes	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund				there		with her eyes	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	close	participle		her eyes not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

just sleeping there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 sleeping	advmod
2	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 sleeping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund				there			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

still floating there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	still	still	ADV	_	2 floating	advmod
2	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 floating	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	gerund				there	still		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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