Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219…

Dead creepy, what was in the flower-pots?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: flower pots

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1008 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219: John meets the princess and sees the garden of dead suitors» 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 creepy	amod
2	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pots	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 pots	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pots	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 pots	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pots	det
8	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pots	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 flower	punct
10	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 creepy	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 creepy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				the flower pots			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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Dried herbs and ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dried	dried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 herbs	amod
2	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ash	cc
4	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 herbs	conj

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

Option 2

Skulls of every dead suitor who had ever come to the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 suitor	case
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 suitor	det
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 suitor	amod
5	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Skulls	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 come	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 come	advmod
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 suitor	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	every dead suitor			the palace	ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location

Option 3

Human skulls grinning at the visitors from the stone steps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 skulls	amod
2	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	grinning	grin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 skulls	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 visitors	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 visitors	det
6	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grinning	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 steps	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 steps	det
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 steps	compound
10	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grinning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grin	gerund	Human skulls not said here					at the visitors; from the stone steps	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Human skulls grinning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 skulls	amod
2	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grinning	nsubj
3	grinning	grin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grin	gerund	Human skulls						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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