Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disgu…

So the old woman saw swans with gold crowns, periodt?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old woman · What happens: see · To what, where: swans

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1021 «Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disguised, wanders the forest and shore, and meets her swan brothers at sunset» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 saw	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 crowns	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crowns	compound
9	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 saw	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 periodt	punct
11	periodt	periodt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crowns	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the old woman	swans				with gold crowns and periodt	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swan=Stimulus

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

Periodt, she saw them on the river close by the old mill, no cap

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Periodt	Periodt	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Periodt	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
9	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 river	amod
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 mill	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mill	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mill	amod
13	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 close	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cap	punct
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 cap	det
16	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 river	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Periodt	them = they		the river and no cap			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 2

Periodt, on the lake up north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Periodt	Periodt	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lake	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 lake	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lake	det
5	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Periodt	appos
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 lake	compound:prt
7	north	north	ADV	_	6 up	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Periodt, on the river close by

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Periodt	Periodt	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 river	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Periodt	appos
6	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 river	amod
7	by	by	ADP	_	6 close	fixed

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

Option 4

Nah, in the palace garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 garden	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 garden	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 garden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 garden	compound
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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