Test 12 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Star Gazer, part 2: Michael hides und…

what was the supper, was it just normal food?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: normal food, supper · What happens: be · To what, where: supper, normal food

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1505 «Blue Fairy Book, The Star Gazer, part 2: Michael hides under a bed, follows the princesses to a magic ball, and Lina catches on» 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	4 supper	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 supper	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 supper	det
4	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 food	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 supper	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 food	cop
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 food	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 food	advmod
9	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 food	amod
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 food	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	normal food	the supper					tree rules
2	is a	past	the supper	normal food					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 · ✓ the right answer

sugared orange flowers and rose leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sugared	sugar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flowers	amod
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sugared	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 rose	cc
5	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 sugared	conj
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sugar	past		orange flowers					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Destination
2	rise	past		leaves					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme

Option 2

sugared orange flowers, rose leaves and crisp golden cakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sugared	sugar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flowers	amod
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sugared	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rose	punct
5	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 sugared	conj
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rose	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cakes	cc
8	crisp	crisp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cakes	amod
9	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cakes	amod
10	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leaves	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sugar	past		orange flowers					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Destination
2	rise	past		leaves and crisp golden cakes					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme

Option 3

fine pastries and spiced wine cups

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pastries	amod
2	pastries	pastry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spiced	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	2 pastries	cc
4	spiced	spice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cups	compound
6	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spiced	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spice	past	fine pastries	wine cups					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent cup=Destination

Option 4

cakes and wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 wine	cc
3	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cakes	conj

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

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