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

Wait, what was the prisoner doing on that wall?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, prisoner · What happens: wait, be, do · To what, where: prisoner, wall

This is test 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. 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	_	6 prisoner	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 prisoner	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prisoner	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prisoner	det
6	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 prisoner	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 wall	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 wall	det
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the prisoner		tree rules
3	do	gerund	the prisoner not said here		that wall	vn act-114-1 «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

tapping out a rhythm on the iron bars of the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tapping	tap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 tapping	compound:prt
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rhythm	det
4	rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tapping	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 bars	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bars	det
7	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bars	compound
8	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 tapping	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 window	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 window	det
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bars	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tap out	gerund		a rhythm				on the iron bars of the window	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent rhythm=Instrument on bar=Patient

Option 2

carving a secret message into the stone floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carving	carve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 message	det
3	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 message	amod
4	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 carving	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 floor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floor	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 floor	compound
8	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 carving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	gerund		a secret message		the stone floor			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent message=Material into floor=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

writing a melody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 melody	det
3	melody	melody	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 writing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	gerund		a melody					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melody=Theme

Option 4

drawing a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drawing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	gerund		a horse					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

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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