Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Moon, part 113: the Moon watches a g…

ngl the Uppsala hill sounds wild, how did people leave their names?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ngl, people · What happens: sound, leave, name · To what, where: names

This is test 4 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sounds	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hill	det
3	Uppsala	Uppsala	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hill	compound
4	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ngl	appos
5	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sounds	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 leave	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 leave	advmod
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 leave	aux
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 leave	nsubj
11	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sounds	parataxis
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 names	nmod:poss
13	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 leave	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sounds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sound	present	ngl		wild property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	leave	past · do-support	people	people's names		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
3	name		people			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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

They cut the grass off to show letters carved into the earth

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	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grass	det
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	2 cut	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 show	mark
7	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cut	advcl
8	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 show	obj
9	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 letters	acl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cut off	past	They	the grass		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector grass=Eventuality
2	show	to-infinitive	They not said here	letters		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Recipient
3	carve	participle		letters not said here	the earth	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They carved the names in stone

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	2 carved	nsubj
2	carved	carve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 names	det
4	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carved	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 stone	case
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 names	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	past	They	the names		stone			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme in stone=Destination

Option 3

They painted names on turf

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	2 painted	nsubj
2	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 painted	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 turf	case
5	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past	They	names		turf			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme on turf=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They cut the grass off to show letters

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	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grass	det
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	2 cut	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 show	mark
7	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cut	advcl
8	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	past	They	the grass					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector grass=Eventuality
2	show	to-infinitive	They not said here	letters					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Recipient

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