Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 1: the ducklings…

wait, what's a burdock anyway, the leaves are massive

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, leaves · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: burdock

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1011 «Andersen's Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 1: the ducklings hatch under the burdock leaves» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 burdock	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 burdock	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 burdock	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 burdock	det
6	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 wait	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 massive	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 leaves	det
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 massive	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 massive	cop
12	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		anyway property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		a burdock		tree rules
3	is	present	the leaves		massive property	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

a weed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 weed	det
2	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a bush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bush	det
2	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a plant with huge leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plant	det
2	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 leaves	case
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 leaves	amod
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 plant	nmod

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

Option 4

a kind of tall grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 grass	case
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grass	amod
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1011-pg27200-part222/t4/