Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven f…

wait, what was up with the lamps?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait up

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 897 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven for three minutes and returns to find a night gone» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 up	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 up	cop
5	up	up	ADP	_	1 wait	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 lamps	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lamps	det
8	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 wait	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait up	imperative	you not said here					with the lamps	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

all the lamps were out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 lamps	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lamps	det
3	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 out	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 out	cop
5	out	out	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	all lamps					out property	tree rules

Option 2

the lamps were still burning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lamps	det
2	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 burning	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 burning	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 burning	advmod
5	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · progressive	the lamps				still		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

the candles had all melted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 candles	det
2	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 melted	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 melted	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 melted	advmod
5	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past · perfect · passive		the candles				all property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

they were lit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lit	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lit	aux:pass
3	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	past · passive		they					tree rules

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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