Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man an…

What did the chairs keep saying when they creaked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: chairs · What happens: do, keep, say, creak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 921 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man and a little boy become friends across the street» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chairs	det
4	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 creaked	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 creaked	nsubj
9	creaked	creak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saying	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		tree rules
2	keep	present	the chairs	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the chairs not said here	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	creak	past	chairs = chair	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Sit down, I'm creaking, oh dear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Sit	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 creaking	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 creaking	nsubj
5	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 creaking	aux
6	creaking	creak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sit	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dear	punct
8	oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 dear	discourse
9	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sit	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	creak	present · progressive	I						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 2

Stop sitting, oh dear, I'm creaking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stop	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dear	punct
4	oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 dear	discourse
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sitting	parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 creaking	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 creaking	nsubj
8	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 creaking	aux
9	creaking	creak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Stop	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	sit	gerund	you not said here	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	creak	present · progressive	I	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 3

Sit down, I'm tired, oh no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Sit	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tired	nsubj
5	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sit	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct
8	oh	oh	INTJ	_	1 Sit	discourse
9	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Sit	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	I					tired property	tree rules

Option 4

Sit down, I'm creaking, oh dear, you're far too heavy for me today

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Sit	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 creaking	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 creaking	nsubj
5	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 creaking	aux
6	creaking	creak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sit	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dear	punct
8	oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 dear	discourse
9	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sit	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heavy	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 heavy	nsubj
12	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 heavy	cop
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 heavy	advmod
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 heavy	advmod
15	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sit	parataxis
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 heavy	obl
18	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heavy	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	creak	present · progressive	I			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	is	present	you	today	for me; far, heavy property	tree rules

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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