Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 2: th…

Nah, what was the tree in the hall doing, weeping?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hall · What happens: be, do, weep · To what, where: tree, hall

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 935 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 2: the prince enters the garden of paradise» 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	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 tree	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 tree	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tree	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hall	det
9	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	nmod
10	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 hall	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 weeping	punct
12	weeping	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 doing	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past		the tree	the hall	tree rules
2	do	gerund	the hall not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	weep	gerund	the hall not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2 «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 · ✓ the right answer

dropping red dewdrops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dewdrops	amod
3	dewdrops	dewdrop	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dropping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	gerund		red dewdrops					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dewdrop=Theme

Option 2

dropping red dewdrops from its leaves like tears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dewdrops	amod
3	dewdrops	dewdrop	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dropping	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 leaves	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 leaves	nmod:poss
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dropping	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 tears	case
8	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leaves	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	gerund		red dewdrops		its leaves like tears			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dewdrop=Theme from leaf=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

weeping red dewdrops like a sad child in the dark hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dewdrops	amod
3	dewdrops	dewdrop	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 weeping	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 child	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 child	amod
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dewdrops	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 hall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hall	det
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hall	amod
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 weeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	gerund		red dewdrops		the dark hall		like a sad child	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dewdrop=Theme

Option 4

growing golden fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fruit	amod
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 growing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	gerund		golden fruit					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fruit=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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