Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 117: the Moon sh…

Wait, were the spectres dancing or sleeping?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, spectres · What happens: wait, be, dance, sleep · To what, where: spectres

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 906 «Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 117: the Moon shows a dead actor, a broken pitcher, a desert caravan and a doll in a tree» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spectres	punct
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spectres	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spectres	det
5	spectres	spectre	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wait	obl
6	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 spectres	acl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 sleeping	cc
8	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 dancing	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the spectres	tree rules
3	dance	gerund	the spectres not said here		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sleep	gerund	the spectres not said here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Dancing along the long walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	along	along	ADP	_	5 walk	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 walk	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 walk	amod
5	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dancing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund				the long walk			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along walk=Location

Option 2

Singing near the old well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	near	near	ADP	_	4 old	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 old	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Singing	obl
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Singing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund				the old		well property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near old=Location

Option 3

Pointing at the sleeping men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 men	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 men	det
4	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 men	compound
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pointing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	gerund						at the sleeping men	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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