Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp: the lamp dreams it…

Where did the old folks' lamp sit, like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lamp · What happens: be, sit

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 925 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp: the lamp dreams it will be melted down» 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 sit	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 folks	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 folks	amod
5	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lamp	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 folks	case
7	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
8	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sit	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	8 sit	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old folks's lamp					where property	tree rules
2	sit	present							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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

By the window sill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 sill	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sill	det
3	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sill	compound
4	sill	sill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

In the grandfather's armchair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	5 armchair	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grandfather	det
3	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 armchair	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 grandfather	case
5	armchair	armchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

In the grandmother's chair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	5 chair	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grandmother	det
3	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chair	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 grandmother	case
5	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

On the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 table	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 table	det
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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