Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Moon, part 113: the Moon watches a g…

what did the poor girl do when she sat on the grave?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: do, sit · To what, where: poor girl, grave

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 902 «Andersen's Tales, The Moon, part 113: the Moon watches a grandmother at the Louvre, a boy's death on the throne, and the people by the sea» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	aux
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 sat	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 grave	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grave	det
12	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the poor girl					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Eventuality
2	sit	present · do-support	girl			the grave			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grave=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

Knelt, prayed, and sighed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knelt	Knelt	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 prayed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Knelt	punct
3	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sighed	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sighed	cc
6	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 prayed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	past	Knelt						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	sigh	past	Knelt not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Listened, gazed, and prayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 prayed	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 gazed	punct
3	gazed	gaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Listened	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 prayed	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 prayed	cc
6	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	roles by
1	listen	participle	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	gaze	participle	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	pray	past	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

Listened, gazed at the sea, and prayed for her brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 prayed	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 gazed	punct
3	gazed	gaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Listened	conj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gazed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 prayed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 prayed	cc
9	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 brother	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brother	nmod:poss
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	listen	participle		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	gaze	participle	at the sea	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sea=Theme
3	pray	past	for her brother	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for brother=Theme

Option 4

Sang, gazed, and wept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sang	Sang	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gazed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sang	punct
3	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wept	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wept	cc
6	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gazed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gaze	past	Sang						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	weep	past	Sang not said here						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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