Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Marie Grubbe, part 160: a sick, wanderin…

wait, where did the clerk keep his stuff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, clerk · What happens: wait, keep · To what, where: stuff

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 949 «Andersen's Tales, Marie Grubbe, part 160: a sick, wandering Marie is lifted onto a ship» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 keep	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clerk	det
6	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 stuff	nmod:poss
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	past · do-support	the clerk	clerk's stuff					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=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 · ← Mova's choice

in the old cabinet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	4 cabinet	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cabinet	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cabinet	amod
4	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

in a locked iron box beneath his writing desk in the back room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	5 box	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 box	det
3	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 box	amod
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 box	compound
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	9 desk	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 desk	nmod:poss
8	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 desk	compound
9	desk	desk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 box	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 room	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 room	compound
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 desk	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

in his table-drawer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	5 drawer	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 drawer	nmod:poss
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drawer	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 table	punct
5	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

in his locked table-drawer under the old ledgers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	6 drawer	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 drawer	nmod:poss
3	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 drawer	amod
4	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drawer	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 table	punct
6	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	under	under	ADP	_	10 ledgers	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ledgers	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ledgers	amod
10	ledgers	ledger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drawer	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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