Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 2…

ngl, what was the mouse crying about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, mouse · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: mouse

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 990 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 201: the elves' glittering maypole and feast, the violet staff and noisy kitchen, then the second mouse sets out to become a poet» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mouse	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 mouse	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mouse	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ngl	appos
7	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 mouse	acl
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 crying	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ngl	the mouse					tree rules
2	cry speech: express	gerund	the mouse not said here					about property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

scared, cuz of the bells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cuz	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 scared	punct
3	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bells	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bells	det
6	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cuz	nmod

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

Option 2

sad tears, they were lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tears	amod
2	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lost	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 tears	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lost	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux:pass
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

happy tears, it was a vibe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tears	amod
2	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 vibe	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 vibe	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 vibe	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 vibe	det
7	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tears	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a vibe					tree rules

Option 4

he was hungry

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 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					hungry property	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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