Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Moon, part 113: the Moon watches a g…

so why'd that poet keep the name hush hush?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poet · What happens: keep · To what, where: hush hush

This is test 6 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 keep	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 keep	advmod
3	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 poet	punct
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 poet	det
5	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	nsubj
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hush	det
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hush	compound
9	hush	hush	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hush	compound
10	hush	hush	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	infinitive	that poet	the hush hush					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hush=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 · ← Mova's choice

A count's crown sat right above it, so he feared the nobles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 count	det
2	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crown	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 count	case
4	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	right	right	ADV	_	8 it	advmod
7	above	above	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 feared	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 feared	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 feared	nsubj
12	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 nobles	det
14	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 feared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past	a count's crown		count	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above it=Location
2	fear	past	he	the nobles		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer noble=Stimulus
3	crown		a count			nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A count's crown sat right above it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 count	det
2	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crown	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 count	case
4	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	right	right	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
7	above	above	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	a count's crown			count		right property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above it=Location
2	crown		a count						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

A bishop's mitre hung above it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bishop	det
2	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mitre	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bishop	case
4	mitre	mitre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hung	nsubj
5	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	above	above	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past	a bishop's mitre			bishop			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above it=Location

Option 4

A count's crown sat right above it, and the name was sacred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 count	det
2	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crown	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 count	case
4	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	right	right	ADV	_	8 it	advmod
7	above	above	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sacred	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sacred	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 name	det
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sacred	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sacred	cop
14	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	a count's crown	count		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above it=Location
2	is	past	the name		sacred property	tree rules
3	crown		a count			nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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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