Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 118: the Moon sh…

what's a "litter" then, mate?

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

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 907 «Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 118: the Moon shows a guilty girl, a boy at a spinning wheel, a mother's belief, and a chimney sweep's first sunrise» 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	5 litter	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 litter	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 litter	det
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 litter	punct
5	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 litter	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 litter	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 litter	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 litter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		a litter and mate			then		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

a closed chair held up by servants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chair	det
2	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chair	amod
3	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chair	acl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 held	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 servants	case
7	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	hold up	participle		a closed chair not said here				by servants	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

a covered chair carried on poles by two strong servants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chair	det
2	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chair	amod
3	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chair	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 poles	case
6	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carried	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 servants	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 servants	nummod
9	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 servants	amod
10	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle							vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	carry	participle		a covered chair not said here		poles		by two strong servants	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a covered chair carried on poles by servants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chair	det
2	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chair	amod
3	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chair	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 poles	case
6	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carried	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 servants	case
8	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle							vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	carry	participle		a covered chair not said here		poles		by servants	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a covered chair carried on long poles by servants through the crowded streets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chair	det
2	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chair	amod
3	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chair	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 poles	case
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 poles	amod
7	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carried	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 servants	case
9	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carried	obl
10	through	through	ADP	_	13 streets	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 streets	det
12	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 streets	amod
13	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle							vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	carry	participle		a covered chair not said here		long poles		by servants; through the crowded streets	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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