Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the blind girl sends lea…

what did the sunbeam show in the dusty room, like, the dust doing what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sunbeam, dust · What happens: do, show · To what, where: dusty room, dust

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 941 «Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the blind girl sends leaves home and the word BELIEVE glows» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sunbeam	det
4	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	nsubj
5	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
8	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 room	amod
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dust	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	14 dust	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dust	det
14	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 room	nmod
15	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 dust	acl
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 doing	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	show	present	the sunbeam		the dusty room the dust	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	gerund	the dust not said here	the dust		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

dance in circles across the dusty room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 circles	case
3	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dance	nmod
4	across	across	ADP	_	7 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
6	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 circles	nmod

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

Option 2

circle round and round in the sunbeam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	round	round	ADV	_	1 circle	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 round	cc
4	round	round	ADV	_	2 round	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sunbeam	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sunbeam	det
7	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 circle	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

circle round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	round	round	ADV	_	1 circle	advmod

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

Option 4

spin about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	about	about	ADV	_	1 spin	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	imperative	you not said here					about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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