Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Philosopher's Stone, part 149: a wis…

did he just sit around thinking all day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, sit around, think

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 938 «Andersen's Tales, The Philosopher's Stone, part 149: a wise man in a crystal castle fears death and teaches his children about the philosopher's stone» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sit	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 sit	advmod
4	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	parataxis
5	around	around	ADP	_	6 thinking	mark
6	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sit	advcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thinking	obl:unmarked
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit around	present	he		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	gerund	he not said here	day	vn focus-87.1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Mostly, yeah, he read books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mostly	mostly	ADV	_	6 read	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mostly	punct
3	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 read	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 read	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 read	nsubj
6	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	he	books				mostly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Mostly, yeah, deep stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mostly	mostly	ADV	_	6 stuff	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mostly	punct
3	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 stuff	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stuff	punct
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stuff	amod
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

No, he also went out hunting and fishing with his sons in the valley

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 went	compound:prt
7	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 went	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fishing	cc
9	fishing	fish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 hunting	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 sons	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sons	nmod:poss
12	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fishing	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 valley	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 valley	det
15	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sons	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go out	past	he		tree rules
2	hunt	gerund	he not said here		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fish	gerund	he not said here	with his sons in the valley	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Mostly, he reads and reflects

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 reads	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mostly	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reads	nsubj
4	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 reflects	cc
6	reflects	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reads	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	he					mostly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reflect	present	he not said here						vn focus-87.1-1 «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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