Test 1 · ★ · Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in…

Yo, who was chillin' on that grass carpet first, like, the stars?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: chillin, grass carpet

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1032 «Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in autumn and the old Winter waits for the stork» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 chillin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 chillin	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chillin	cop
5	chillin	chillin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 chillin	punct
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 carpet	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 carpet	det
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carpet	compound
10	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chillin	nmod
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 carpet	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stars	punct
13	like	like	INTJ	_	16 stars	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stars	det
16	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chillin	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chillin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		chillin and the stars		that grass carpet			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

the young children of Spring and their dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Spring	case
5	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 children	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dogs	cc
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dogs	nmod:poss
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 children	conj

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

Option 2

the sleepy old farmers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 farmers	det
2	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 farmers	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 farmers	amod
4	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

the sparrows that were singing in the nearby hedge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sparrows	det
2	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 singing	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 singing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 singing	aux
5	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 hedge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hedge	det
8	nearby	nearby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hedge	amod
9	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	the sparrows			the nearby hedge			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hedge=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the young children of Spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Spring	case
5	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 children	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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