Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Moon: the Moon watches a prisoner le…

In what manner did the younger sister conclude her prayer when interrupted by her mother?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: younger sister, sister · What happens: conclude, interrupt, pray · To what, where: prayer, manner

This is exam question 3 of lesson 909 «Andersen's Tales, The Moon: the Moon watches a prisoner leave his cell, then a little girl says her prayers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conclude	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 conclude	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sister	det
6	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 sister	amod
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conclude	nsubj
8	conclude	conclude	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 prayer	nmod:poss
10	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conclude	obj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 interrupted	advmod
12	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 conclude	advcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 mother	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 interrupted	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 conclude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	conclude	past · do-support	the younger sister	sister's prayer	what manner		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme
2	interrupt	participle	the younger sister not said here			by sister's mother	tree rules
3	pray		sister				nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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

she burst into tears and hid under the blankets for the rest of the night

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 burst	nsubj
2	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 tears	case
4	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 burst	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hid	cc
6	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 burst	conj
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 blankets	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 blankets	det
9	blankets	blanket	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hid	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 rest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rest	det
12	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hid	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 night	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst	past	she			tears			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hide	past	she not said here			the blankets		for the rest of the night	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under blanket=Location

Option 2

she jumped up and ran out of the room crying loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 jumped	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ran	cc
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	conj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 room	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
10	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 jumped	advcl
11	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	10 crying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	jump up	past	she			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	past	she not said here	the room		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out room=Trajectory
3	cry speech: express	gerund	she not said here		loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she lay silent in embarrassment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lay	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 embarrassment	case
5	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	she			embarrassment		silent property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in embarrassment=Location

Option 4

she pretended to be asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pretended	nsubj
2	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 asleep	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 asleep	cop
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pretended	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	she						tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	she not said here					asleep property	tree rules

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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