Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell: a cracked bell is s…

real talk, what was the Danish kid's job?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: real talk · What happens: be · To what, where: job

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 919 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell: a cracked bell is sold, melted, and cast into a statue of a poet» 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	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 job	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 job	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 job	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kid	det
7	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kid	amod
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 job	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 kid	case
10	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	real talk and the Danish kid's job	the Danish kid's job					tree rules

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

Carrying dinner to his father at the far end of the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carrying	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 father	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carrying	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
8	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 end	amod
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carrying	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 village	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 village	det
12	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund		dinner	his father		at the far end of the village		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme to father=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Carrying his dad's dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dad	nmod:poss
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dinner	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 dad	case
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carrying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund		his dad's dinner					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme

Option 3

Carrying his father's dinner every day to the fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dinner	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 father	case
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carrying	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carrying	obl:unmarked
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 fields	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fields	det
10	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Carrying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund		his father's dinner		the fields	day		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme to field=Destination

Option 4

Herding the family goats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Herding	herd	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 goats	det
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goats	compound
4	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Herding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	herd	gerund		the family goats					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent goat=Patient

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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