Test 3 · ★ · Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a tem…

Where was the swan chillin' when he touched the water?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: swan chillin, he · What happens: be, touch · To what, where: water

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 908 «Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a temple, a swan and a dancing bear» 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chillin	det
4	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chillin	compound
5	chillin	chillin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 chillin	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 touched	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 touched	nsubj
9	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chillin	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 touched	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the swan chillin					where property	tree rules
2	touch	past	he	the water					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Co-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

in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	2 it	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

on the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 lake	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lake	det
3	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

by the reeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 reeds	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reeds	det
3	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

on land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	2 land	case
2	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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