Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 117: the Moon sh…

Was the actor's weeping, like, a good sign?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: weeping

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 weeping	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 actor	det
3	actor	actor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weeping	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 actor	case
5	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	5 weeping	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sign	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sign	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sign	amod
11	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weeping	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 weeping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the actor's weeping and a good sign					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 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, he did not kill himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 kill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kill	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kill	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 kill	advmod
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not kill	past · do-support	he	himself = he					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme

Option 2

No, because he wept and then drank poison from the vial beside him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 wept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wept	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 wept	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wept	nsubj
5	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 drank	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 drank	advmod
8	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wept	conj
9	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drank	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 vial	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 vial	det
12	vial	vial	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drank	obl
13	beside	beside	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 vial	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	he						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	past	he not said here	poison		the vial beside him	then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient

Option 3

Yes, he sang to the crowd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 crowd	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crowd	det
7	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	he		the crowd				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to crowd=Recipient

Option 4

Yes, because he chose to live and went back to the theatre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 chose	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chose	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 chose	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chose	nsubj
5	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 live	mark
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chose	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chose	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 theatre	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 theatre	det
13	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	choose	past	he		tree rules
2	live	to-infinitive	he not said here		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go back	past	he not said here	to the theatre result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to theatre=Result

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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