Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bir…

Ngl, who was sitting on the emperor's chest?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: sit · To what, where: chest

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 913 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real nightingale saves the dying emperor» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sitting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 chest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 emperor	det
8	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chest	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 emperor	case
10	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Ngl			the emperor's chest			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chest=Location

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

Death, with his long cold fingers sitting heavy upon the emperor's chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fingers	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	7 fingers	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fingers	nmod:poss
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fingers	amod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fingers	amod
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Death	conj
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 fingers	acl
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sitting	xcomp
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 chest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 emperor	det
12	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chest	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 emperor	case
14	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund	his long cold fingers not said here			the emperor's chest		heavy property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon chest=Location

Option 2

Shadow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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