Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldie…

why did the little sister's dancing look well weird?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dancing, little sister · What happens: look, dance

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 922 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldier is found again in a new garden» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 look	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 look	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sister	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sister	amod
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dancing	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 sister	case
7	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 look	nsubj
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 weird	advmod
10	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 look	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	the little sister's dancing					weird property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	dance		the little sister						nom dancing «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

too tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	too	too	ADV	_	2 tired	advmod
2	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

she fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	she						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

the stage was too small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stage	det
2	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 small	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 small	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the stage					small property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the tune was too slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tune	det
2	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slow	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slow	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 slow	advmod
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tune					slow 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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