Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives…

wait, what does grandpa use as the lover?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, grandpa · What happens: wait, use

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 914 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives, and the nightingale makes a promise» 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 use	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 use	obj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 use	aux
5	grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	nsubj
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 lover	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lover	det
9	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use	present · do-support	grandpa					as the lover	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Duration as lover=Attribute

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

The sloping row of books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 row	det
2	sloping	sloping	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 row	amod
3	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 books	case
5	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 row	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The old box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 box	amod
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Grandpapa's old slippers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandpapa	Grandpapa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 slippers	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Grandpapa	case
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slippers	amod
4	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Her brother's old waistcoat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waistcoat	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 brother	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 waistcoat	amod
5	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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