Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disgu…

Her bros were writing on golden slates in her dream, fr?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bros, her · What happens: write, dream · To what, where: golden slates

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bros	nmod:poss
2	bros	bro	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 writing	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 writing	aux
4	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 slates	case
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 slates	amod
7	slates	slate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 writing	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 dream	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dream	nmod:poss
10	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slates	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fr	punct
12	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dream	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 writing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · progressive	Her bros			golden slates in her dream and fr			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on slate=Destination
2	dream		her = she						nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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

Yep, with golden pens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 pens	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 pens	case
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pens	amod
5	pens	pen	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Fr, with diamond pencils, and they wrote about their deeds, no cap

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pencils	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 pencils	case
4	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pencils	compound
5	pencils	pencil	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fr	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wrote	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wrote	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wrote	nsubj
9	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Fr	conj
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 deeds	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 deeds	nmod:poss
12	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wrote	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cap	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 cap	det
15	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fr	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	pencils = pencil					about pencils's deeds	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about deed=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fr, with diamond pencils

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pencils	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 pencils	case
4	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pencils	compound
5	pencils	pencil	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fr	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Fr, they were writing with shiny diamond pencils on golden slates, bruh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 writing	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fr	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 writing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 writing	aux
5	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 pencils	case
7	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pencils	amod
8	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pencils	compound
9	pencils	pencil	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 writing	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 slates	case
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 slates	amod
12	slates	slate	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pencils	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 writing	punct
14	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	5 writing	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · progressive	they					with shiny diamond pencils on golden slates; Fr vocative	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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