Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Old Anthony, part 127: Anthony lies awak…

Mad, what does he do to stop the tears, like?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, stop · To what, where: tears

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 916 «Andersen's Tales, Old Anthony, part 127: Anthony lies awake in his cold booth and remembers his childhood with Molly» 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mad	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stop	mark
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 do	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tears	det
10	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stop	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	6 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	stop	to-infinitive	he not said here	the tears					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality tear=Eventuality

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 right answer

he dries them with his nightcap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dries	nsubj
2	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dries	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 nightcap	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nightcap	nmod:poss
6	nightcap	nightcap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dries	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	present	he	them = they				with his nightcap	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with nightcap=Instrument

Option 2

he wipes them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wipes	nsubj
2	wipes	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wipes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe	present	he	them = they					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source

Option 3

he dries them with a towel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dries	nsubj
2	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dries	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 towel	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 towel	det
6	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dries	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	present	he	them = they				with a towel	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with towel=Instrument

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he hides them under the bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hides	nsubj
2	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hides	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 bed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bed	det
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hides	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	he	them = they		the bed			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient under bed=Location

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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