Test 11 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo di…

What did the fairies carry at the gates, fam?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: fairies · What happens: do, carry · To what, where: gates

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1170 «Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo dies, the wife poisons herself, and a queen is promised a daughter» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fairies	det
4	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	nsubj
5	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 gates	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gates	det
8	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gates	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	carry	present	the fairies			the gates and fam			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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

Flowers made of precious stones, held high on silver poles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 held	nsubj:pass
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Flowers	acl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 stones	case
4	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stones	amod
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 held	punct
7	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 held	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 poles	case
10	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 poles	compound
11	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		Flowers not said here				of precious stones	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	hold	participle · passive		Flowers		silver poles		high property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on pole=Location

Option 2

Swords cast from silver steel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cast	nsubj
2	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 steel	case
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 steel	compound
5	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cast	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	present	Swords			silver steel			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent from steel=Material

Option 3

Lamps made of glowing crystal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Lamps	acl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 crystal	case
4	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 crystal	amod
5	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		Lamps not said here				of glowing crystal	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	glow	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Flowers made of precious stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Flowers	acl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 stones	case
4	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stones	amod
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		Flowers not said here				of precious stones	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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