Test 9 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Fish of the Fountain: a girl feeds…

was the tree really bowing to her or nah

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, bow · To what, where: tree, her

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1312 «Violet Fairy Book, The Fish of the Fountain: a girl feeds a fish, he is eaten, and his bones grow into a magic tree» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tree	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bowing	csubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 bowing	advmod
5	bowing	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bowing	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 nah	cc
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 bowing	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the tree					tree rules
2	bow	gerund			her = she				vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to she=Pivot

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

yes, it bowed right down to the earth in front of her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 bowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bowed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bowed	nsubj
4	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 down	advmod
6	down	down	ADV	_	4 bowed	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 earth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 earth	det
9	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bowed	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 front	case
11	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 earth	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	past	it					to the earth in front of her; down property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme

Option 2

no, it only shook its leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 shook	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shook	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 shook	advmod
5	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 leaves	nmod:poss
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	it	its leaves					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

Option 3

yes, it bent low to the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 bent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bent	nsubj
4	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 bent	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	past	it			the ground		low property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ground=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yes, it bowed right down to the earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 bowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bowed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bowed	nsubj
4	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 down	advmod
6	down	down	ADV	_	4 bowed	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 earth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 earth	det
9	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	past	it					to the earth; down property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme

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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