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Test 9 · ★ · Fronted adverbials

«my lover, what's an adverbial when it's at home?» What would be a good example to give?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: lover, adverbial · What happens: be, give · To what, where: adverbial, home, good example

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 29 «Fronted adverbials» of the English 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

Sentence 1: «my lover, what's an adverbial when it's at home?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 lover	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lover	nmod:poss
3	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 adverbial	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 adverbial	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 adverbial	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adverbial	det
8	adverbial	adverbial	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lover	conj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 home	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 home	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 home	cop
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 home	case
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lover	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 lover	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 lover	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	my lover and a adverbial	a adverbial					tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	adverbial			home			tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: What would be a good example to give?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 example	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 example	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 example	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 example	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 example	amod
6	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 give	mark
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 example	acl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 example	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would		a good example					tree rules
2	give	to-infinitive							vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

The options

Option 1

The troll waited.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 troll	det
2	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waited	nsubj
3	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	the troll						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Under the old bridge, the troll waited.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	4 bridge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bridge	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bridge	amod
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waited	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bridge	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 troll	det
7	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waited	nsubj
8	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 waited	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	the troll			the old bridge			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under bridge=Location

Option 3

The troll waited under the old bridge.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 troll	det
2	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waited	nsubj
3	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	7 bridge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bridge	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bridge	amod
7	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waited	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	the troll			the old bridge			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under bridge=Location

Option 4

The troll.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 troll	det
2	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 troll	punct

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

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