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Test 6 · ★★ · Tenses: past, present and future

In a video game, the cut-scene says "The dragon was sleeping when the knight crept in." Which action was going on already?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cut scene, dragon, knight, action · What happens: say, sleep, creep in, go on · To what, where: video game · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 8 «Tenses: past, present and future» of the language 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: In a video game, the cut-scene says "The dragon was sleeping when the knight crept in."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 game	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 game	det
3	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 game	compound
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 game	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 scene	det
7	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scene	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 cut	punct
9	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 sleeping	punct
12	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dragon	det
13	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sleeping	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sleeping	aux
15	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 says	ccomp
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 crept	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 knight	det
18	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crept	nsubj
19	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sleeping	advcl
20	in	in	ADV	_	19 crept	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the cut scene			a video game			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep in a quote	past · progressive	the dragon						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	creep in in a quote	past	the knight						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: Which action was going on already?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 action	det
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 going	compound:prt
6	already	already	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past · progressive	which action						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Neither, it's the future

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	6 future	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 future	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 future	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 future	det
6	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the future				neither property	tree rules

Option 2

The knight creeping in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knight	det
2	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 knight	acl
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 creeping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep in	gerund	the knight not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Both started at the same time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 time	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 started	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	Both				time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The dragon sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sleeping	det
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleeping	compound
3	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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