Test 8 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, part 1: Mic…

so the lady gives him two laurels, like plants or magic trees?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lady · What happens: give · To what, where: two laurels, plants

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1504 «Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, part 1: Michael the Star Gazer finds two magic laurels» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 gives	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lady	det
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	nsubj
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gives	iobj
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 laurels	nummod
7	laurels	laurel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gives	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 plants	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 plants	case
10	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gives	iobj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 trees	cc
12	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 trees	amod
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 plants	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	the lady	two laurels	plants or magic trees				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

yeah, just plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 plants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 plants	advmod
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, plants, and they grant wishes if you talk to them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 plants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 plants	punct
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grant	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grant	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 grant	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 grant	nsubj
7	grant	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grant	obj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 talk	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 talk	nsubj
11	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grant	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	present	plants	wishes					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wish=Theme
2	talk a condition, not said to happen	present	you		plants = plant				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent

Option 3

yeah, plants, and they make the garden smell nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 plants	punct
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 yeah	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 make	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	nsubj
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 smell	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 smell	compound
10	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
11	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	plants = plant	the garden smell				nice property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset smell=Product

Option 4

nah, magic trees, they talk back to you lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 talk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 trees	punct
3	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trees	amod
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 nah	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 talk	nsubj
7	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 talk	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 talk	obl
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 talk	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk back	present	trees = tree		you				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent

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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