Test 3 · ★ · Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179…

wait, was jurgen sitting by clara in church or what?

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

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 968 «Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179: the shipwreck and Clara's death» 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	_	5 sitting	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
4	jurgen	jurgen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sitting	compound
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 wait	advcl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 clara	case
7	clara	clara	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 church	case
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 church	conj
12	?	?	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	sit	past · progressive	you not said here			church		by clara	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by clara=Location

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

he knelt right beside her at the altar rail and watched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knelt	nsubj
2	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knelt	xcomp
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knelt	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 rail	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rail	det
8	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rail	compound
9	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knelt	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 watched	cc
11	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knelt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kneel	past	he			the altar rail		beside her = she; right property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location
2	watch	past	he not said here						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 2

he was kneeling across the aisle, far from her, praying alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kneeling	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kneeling	aux
3	kneeling	kneel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 aisle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 aisle	det
6	aisle	aisle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kneeling	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 far	punct
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 kneeling	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 far	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 praying	punct
12	praying	pray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 kneeling	conj
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 praying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kneel	past · progressive	he			the aisle		far property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pray	gerund	he not said here					alone property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he knelt right next to her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knelt	nsubj
2	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	right	right	ADV	_	4 next	advmod
4	next	next	ADV	_	2 knelt	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knelt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kneel	past	he		her = she			next property	vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient

Option 4

he kneeled near the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kneeled	nsubj
2	kneeled	kneele	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kneeled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kneele	participle	he			the door			tree rules

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