Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Grave-Stone, part 131: the old g…

Wait, was the story saying everything gets forgotten?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, story · What happens: wait, be, say, forget · To what, where: story, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 920 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Grave-Stone, part 131: the old grave-stone is remembered, and a new tale begins with an old house and a leaking dragon gutter» 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	_	5 story	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 story	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
6	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 story	acl
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 forgotten	nsubj:pass
8	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 forgotten	aux:pass
9	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 saying	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the story	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the story not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	forget	present · passive		everything	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

Nope, the old man denied it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 denied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 denied	nsubj
6	denied	deny	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 denied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deny	past	the old man	it					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the old man said it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old man	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

Yes, the story says even the grave-stone will be forgotten one day

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	even	even	ADV	_	10 stone	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stone	det
8	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stone	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 grave	punct
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forgotten	nsubj:pass
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 forgotten	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 forgotten	aux:pass
13	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 says	ccomp
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 day	nummod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forgotten	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the story						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	forget	future · passive		the grave stone			day		tree rules

Option 4

No, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

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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