Test 12 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plouhinec, part 1: a beg…

Was the moor a good place for growing corn, like at all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: good place · What happens: be, grow · To what, where: moor, corn

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1316 «Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plouhinec, part 1: a beggar comes to the Christmas supper» 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 moor	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moor	det
3	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 place	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 place	amod
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 growing	mark
8	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 place	acl
9	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 growing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 all	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 all	case
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 place	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 place	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the moor					tree rules
2	grow	gerund	a good place not said here	corn					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location corn=Theme

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

Nah, only weeds grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 weeds	advmod
4	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	weeds						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, nothing grows there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 grows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 grows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	nothing			there			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, very good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 good	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 good	advmod
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Yeah, grows well there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 grows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grows	punct
3	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grows	advmod
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 grows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present				there		well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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