Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy ni…

Proper creepy, yeah, that Cupid sitting in the big light?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cupid · What happens: sit · To what, where: big light

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 970 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy night, a wet boy named Cupid, a shot straight to the poet's heart» 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	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 creepy	amod
2	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sitting	punct
4	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 sitting	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sitting	punct
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 sitting	mark
7	Cupid	Cupid	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	nsubj
8	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 creepy	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 light	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 light	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 light	amod
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 creepy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund	Cupid			the big light			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in light=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

Yeah, the huge glowing chandelier in the old theatre hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 chandelier	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chandelier	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chandelier	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chandelier	amod
5	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 chandelier	amod
6	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 hall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hall	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hall	amod
10	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hall	compound
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chandelier	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, he's sitting in the cold attic by a small window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sitting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sitting	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 attic	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 attic	det
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 attic	amod
9	attic	attic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 window	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 window	det
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 window	amod
13	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present · progressive	he			the cold attic		by a small window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in attic=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, that bright chandelier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 chandelier	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chandelier	punct
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 chandelier	det
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chandelier	amod
5	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the chandelier at the theatre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chandelier	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chandelier	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chandelier	det
4	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 theatre	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 theatre	det
7	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chandelier	nmod

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

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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