Test 11 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, The Old Street Lamp, part 135: the lam…

did the glow-worm really shine all the time, or like sometimes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: glow worm · What happens: shine

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 924 «Danish Fairy Tales, The Old Street Lamp, part 135: the lamp's last night on his post and the three rivals on the bridge» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shine	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 worm	det
3	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worm	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 glow	punct
5	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shine	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 shine	advmod
7	shine	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shine	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 like	cc
13	like	like	INTJ	_	7 shine	discourse
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 like	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 shine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	past · do-support	the glow worm				time		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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

only sometimes, that's what they said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	only	only	ADV	_	6 what	advmod
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 what	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 what	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 what	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that					sometimes property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

only sometimes, that's what they said, not in the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	only	only	ADV	_	6 what	advmod
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 what	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 what	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 what	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 said	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rain	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 rain	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 rain	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rain	det
13	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that					sometimes property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

just now and then, that's the story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 now	advmod
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 story	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 then	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 now	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 now	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 story	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 story	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	the story			now		tree rules

Option 4

only sometimes, that's what they said, it flickers too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	only	only	ADV	_	6 what	advmod
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 what	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 what	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 what	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 said	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flickers	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 flickers	nsubj
11	flickers	flicker	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
12	too	too	ADV	_	11 flickers	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	sometimes property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	they		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	flicker	present	it		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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