Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, t…

why did the ladies stand in a row, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ladies · What happens: stand · To what, where: row

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 997 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, the rattle and the kisses» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stand	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stand	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ladies	det
4	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stand	nsubj
5	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 real	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 row	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 row	det
8	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stand	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stand	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 real	case
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · do-support	the ladies			a row			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=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

to guard the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 guard	mark
2	guard	guard	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gate	det
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	to-infinitive		the gate					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary

Option 2

to sing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 sing	mark
2	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	to-infinitive							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to hide the kisses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kisses	det
4	kisses	kiss	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive		the kisses					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Patient

Option 4

to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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