Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Moon, part 113: the Moon watches a g…

the coachman steered by the trees, why was that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: steer, be · To what, where: coachman, that

This is test 8 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coachman	det
2	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	steered	steer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 coachman	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 trees	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 steered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 coachman	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 coachman	advmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 that	cop
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 coachman	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 coachman	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steer	participle		the coachman not said here				by the trees	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by tree=Destination
2	is a	past		that					tree rules

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

To find the road in snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 road	det
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 snow	case
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	to-infinitive		the road		snow			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Topic

Option 2

To keep the horses calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horses	det
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
5	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		the horses				calm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To avoid the sea when snow hid the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 avoid	mark
2	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hid	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 avoid	obj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 hid	advmod
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hid	nsubj
7	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	to-infinitive	snow not said here	the sea					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent sea=Location
2	hide	past	snow	the road					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient

Option 4

To avoid the sea when snow hid the road and the wind rose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 avoid	mark
2	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hid	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 avoid	obj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 hid	advmod
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hid	nsubj
7	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hid	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rose	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rose	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rose	compound
13	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 road	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	to-infinitive	snow not said here	the sea					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent sea=Location
2	hide	past	snow	the road and the wind rose					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient

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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