Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Ara…

Who sat next to the newlyweds at the table?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: sit · To what, where: table

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 896 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Arab prince at the storks' house» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	next	next	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 newlyweds	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 newlyweds	det
6	newlyweds	newlywed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 table	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past				the table		to the newlyweds; next property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location

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

The bridegroom's uncle and the bride's cousin from Jutland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bridegroom	det
2	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uncle	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bridegroom	case
4	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cousin	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bride	det
7	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cousin	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 bride	case
9	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uncle	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 Jutland	case
11	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cousin	nmod

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

Option 2

The guests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guests	det
2	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The bride's mom and grandpa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bride	det
2	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mom	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bride	case
4	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grandpa	cc
6	grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mom	conj

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

Option 4

The bride's mom and grandpa, with the prince sitting beside them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bride	det
2	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mom	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bride	case
4	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grandpa	cc
6	grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mom	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 prince	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 prince	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mom	appos
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 prince	acl
12	beside	beside	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund	the prince not said here					beside mom	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside they=Location

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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