Test 13 · ★ · Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's…

so did the angel let the critic in on his own?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: angel · What happens: let · To what, where: critic, own

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 988 «Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's gate, and old Margaret's burning bed saves the skaters» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 let	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 angel	det
4	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	nsubj
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 critic	det
7	critic	critic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 own	case
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 own	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 own	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 let	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · do-support	the angel	the critic		angel's own			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent critic=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

nah, bribed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 bribed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	bribed	bribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bribe	participle							vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, it was Margaret who pleaded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 Margaret	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Margaret	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Margaret	cop
5	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pleaded	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 pleaded	nsubj
7	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	Margaret					tree rules
2	plead speech: request	past	Margaret						tree rules

Option 3

yes, alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 alone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

nah, the master builder pleaded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 builder	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 builder	det
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 builder	compound
5	builder	builder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	pleaded	plead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 builder	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plead speech: request	participle		the master builder not said here					tree rules

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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