Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter…
Be real, which trees got flowers before they even got leaves?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, trees · What happens: be, get · To what, where: flowers, leaves
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1031 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter and the two children of Spring» 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 real | cop |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 got | nsubj |
| 5 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 real | conj |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 got | obj |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 got | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 got | advmod |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | advcl |
| 12 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 got | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 real | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | flowers | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get | past | trees = tree | leaves | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leaf=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
Cherry and pear trees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trees | compound |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pear | cc |
| 3 | pear | pear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cherry | conj |
| 4 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The tall oaks and birches on the hills behind the farm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 oaks | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 oaks | amod |
| 3 | oaks | oak | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 birches | cc |
| 5 | birches | birch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 oaks | conj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 hills | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hills | det |
| 8 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 oaks | nmod |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 farm | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 farm | det |
| 11 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hills | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Apple and peach trees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple | Apple | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 trees | cc |
| 3 | peach | peach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trees | compound |
| 4 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Apple | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Every single tree in the orchard near the old stone wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 tree | det |
| 2 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tree | amod |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 orchard | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 orchard | det |
| 6 | orchard | orchard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tree | nmod |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 wall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wall | amod |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wall | compound |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 orchard | 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/1031-pg27200-part242/t8/