Test 12 · ★ · Indian Folklore, Ball-Carrier, part 13: the witch buries t…

Ngl, what grows in those pools?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: grow · To what, where: pools

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1212 «Indian Folklore, Ball-Carrier, part 13: the witch buries the gold and the bridge, and Ball-Carrier goes home» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grows	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grows	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pools	case
6	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 pools	det
7	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grows	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 grows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Ngl			that pools			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Location

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

Moss on the stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 stones	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stones	det
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Moss	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Tall bulrushes growing all around the pools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bulrushes	amod
2	bulrushes	bulrush	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 growing	nsubj
3	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 pools	advmod
5	around	around	ADP	_	7 pools	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pools	det
7	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 growing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	gerund	Tall bulrushes	the pools					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pool=Theme

Option 3

Lilies all around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	all	all	ADV	_	3 around	advmod
3	around	around	ADV	_	1 Lilies	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Bulrushes all around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bulrushes	bulrush	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	all	all	ADV	_	3 around	advmod
3	around	around	ADV	_	1 Bulrushes	advmod

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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