Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Grave-Stone, part 131: the old g…

Dude, what did the spooky voice say to the little boy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: do, say · To what, where: spooky voice, little boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Dude	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 voice	det
6	spooky	spooky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 voice	amod
7	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 boy	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Dude	the spooky voice					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Dude		the little boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient

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

Guard the seed carefully because it will grow into something great one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guard	Guard	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 seed	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 seed	det
3	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	3 seed	advmod
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 grow	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grow	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 grow	aux
8	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seed	advcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 something	case
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 grow	obl
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 something	amod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 day	nummod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grow	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	future	seed				day	into something result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into something=Result

Option 2

Hide the seed under the stone and never tell anyone about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 seed	det
3	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 stone	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stone	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 tell	advmod
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	conj
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 tell	obj
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	the seed		the stone			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent seed=Patient under stone=Location
2	not tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		anyone			about stone	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient about it=Topic

Option 3

Keep the seed safe always

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 seed	det
3	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obj
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	1 Keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	the seed				always, safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Guard the seed, it will grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guard	Guard	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 seed	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 seed	det
3	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 seed	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 grow	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 grow	aux
7	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seed	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	future	seed	the Guard seed not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme

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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