Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Marie Grubbe, part 160: a sick, wanderin…

no cap, why was the wedding stuff so late?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: be · To what, where: wedding stuff

This is test 4 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stuff	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 cap	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stuff	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stuff	det
7	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stuff	compound
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 late	advmod
10	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 stuff	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 stuff	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	no cap	the wedding stuff				late property	tree rules

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

the ship was late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the winds were contrary or dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 winds	det
2	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 contrary	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 contrary	cop
4	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 dead	cc
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 contrary	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the winds					contrary property	tree rules
2	be		the winds not said here						tree rules

Option 3

the ship hit a sandbank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ship	det
2	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	nsubj
3	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sandbank	det
5	sandbank	sandbank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	the ship	a sandbank					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sandbank=Co-Theme

Option 4

the cloth got lost at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cloth	det
2	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	nsubj:pass
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux:pass
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 sea	case
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		the cloth		sea			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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