Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Moon, part 113: the Moon watches a g…

what was the painter doing while the nightingales sang?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: painter, nightingales · What happens: be, do, sing · To what, where: painter

This is test 9 · ★ 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	4 painter	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 painter	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 painter	det
4	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 painter	acl
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 sang	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nightingales	det
8	nightingales	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sang	nsubj
9	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 painter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the painter	tree rules
2	do	gerund	the painter not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sing speech: express	past	the nightingales		vn sound_emission-43.2 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Telling them to hold their tongues while he sketched the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 sketched	csubj
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Telling	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hold	mark
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Telling	xcomp
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tongues	nmod:poss
6	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	obj
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 sketched	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sketched	nsubj
9	sketched	sketch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sketched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			them = they	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hold not said to happen	to-infinitive		their tongues		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
3	sketch	past	he	the sea		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme

Option 2

Asking them to sing softly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Asking	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sing	mark
4	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Asking	xcomp
5	softly	softly	ADV	_	4 sing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund			them = they				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sing speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive						softly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Telling them to hold their tongues

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Telling	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hold	mark
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Telling	xcomp
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tongues	nmod:poss
6	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hold not said to happen	to-infinitive		their tongues					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme

Option 4

Chasing them from the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chasing	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 tree	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chasing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	gerund		them = they		the tree			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from tree=Trajectory

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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