Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born…

Is the frost on the trees mad pretty?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: frost, trees

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1619 «Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born and learns about the sun, the moon and the weather» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 frost	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 frost	det
3	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mad	obl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 trees	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 frost	nmod
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	7 mad	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the frost		the 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

Like a whole wood of pink coral, all glittering under the cold morning sun

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 wood	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wood	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wood	amod
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 coral	case
6	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coral	amod
7	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wood	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 glittering	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 glittering	nsubj
10	glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 wood	acl
11	under	under	ADP	_	15 sun	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sun	det
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sun	amod
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sun	compound
15	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 glittering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glitter	gerund	all	a whole wood of pink coral not said here		the cold morning sun			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wood=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Like white coral trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 trees	case
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trees	amod
3	coral	coral	NOUN	_	4 trees	compound
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Like a wood of coral

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 wood	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wood	det
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 coral	case
5	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wood	nmod

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

Option 4

Like frost on a window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	2 frost	case
2	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 window	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 window	det
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 frost	nmod

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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