Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Gingerbread Cakes, part 226: Knud wa…

What did Joanna call the trees, like the elder one?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Joanna · What happens: call · To what, where: trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1015 «Andersen's Tales, The Gingerbread Cakes, part 226: Knud walks to Copenhagen to visit Joanna» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 call	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 call	aux
3	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 call	nsubj
4	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 call	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 one	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	Joanna	the trees					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme tree=Result

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

elder-mother and willow-father, they're like the garden's family

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 elder	punct
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 father	cc
5	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 father	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 willow	punct
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 family	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 family	nsubj
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 family	cop
11	like	like	ADP	_	15 family	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 garden	det
13	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 family	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 garden	case
15	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	mother					like the garden's family	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

elder-mother and willow-father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 elder	punct
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 father	cc
5	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 father	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 willow	punct
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	conj

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

Option 3

elder-sister and oak-brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sister	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 elder	punct
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 brother	cc
5	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brother	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 oak	punct
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sister	conj

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

Option 4

elder-mother and the big old oak-grandfather by the wall of the yard

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 elder	punct
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grandfather	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grandfather	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grandfather	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grandfather	amod
8	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grandfather	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 oak	punct
10	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 wall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wall	det
13	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grandfather	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 yard	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 yard	det
16	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wall	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.

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