Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie, part 138: Hjalmar sai…

why were the furniture and the tin soldiers singing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: furniture, tin soldiers · What happens: be, sing

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 927 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie, part 138: Hjalmar sails with Ole, rescues a tired stork, and rides to a mouse wedding» 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=Rel	root	root
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 furniture	det
4	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 why	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 soldiers	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 soldiers	det
7	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 soldiers	compound
8	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 furniture	conj
9	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 soldiers	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the furniture and the tin soldiers					why property	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	gerund	the tin soldiers not said here						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

the bride was ready

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the mice had sent them a letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mice	det
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 letter	det
7	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · perfect · passive		the mice					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the wedding was done

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wedding	det
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 done	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux:pass
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		the wedding					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

they had finished their ballroom dance at last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 finished	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 finished	aux
3	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dance	nmod:poss
5	ballroom	ballroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dance	compound
6	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finished	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 finished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	they	their ballroom dance		last			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality dance=Eventuality
2	dance		their = they						nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=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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