Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie the Dream-God, part 13…

Yo, did the furniture stay quiet or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: furniture · What happens: stay

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 926 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie the Dream-God, part 137: the dream-man decorates Hjalmar's room and sails him to his nurse» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 stay	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stay	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 furniture	det
5	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stay	nsubj
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stay	xcomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 quiet	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past · do-support	the furniture					quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «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

it chattered away non-stop all through the night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chattered	nsubj
2	chattered	chatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 chattered	advmod
4	non-stop	non-stop	ADV	_	2 chattered	advmod
5	all	all	ADV	_	8 night	advmod
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chattered	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chatter away	past	it				night	away, non-stop property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

it hummed softly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hummed	nsubj
2	hummed	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	softly	softly	ADV	_	2 hummed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hum	past	it					softly property	vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

it stayed quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	it					quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

it chattered away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chattered	nsubj
2	chattered	chatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 chattered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chatter away	past	it					away property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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