Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king…
Was the bush brown or green, the one in the garden?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bush · What happens: be
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1621 «Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king breaks his word, the princess dies, and the sentinels vanish one by one» 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 | 4 brown | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bush | det |
| 3 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brown | nsubj |
| 4 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 green | cc |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brown | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brown | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 garden | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 garden | det |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 brown | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the bush | brown property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the bush not said here | 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
Green, not brown, with smooth leaves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 leaves | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brown | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 brown | advmod |
| 4 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Green | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leaves | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 leaves | case |
| 7 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 leaves | amod |
| 8 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Brown, rather than green, with hairy leaves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 leaves | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 green | punct |
| 3 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 5 green | cc |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 3 rather | fixed |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Brown | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 leaves | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 leaves | case |
| 8 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 leaves | amod |
| 9 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Brown, with smooth leaves, not hairy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leaves | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 leaves | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 leaves | case |
| 4 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leaves | amod |
| 5 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hairy | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 hairy | advmod |
| 8 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leaves | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Brown, rather than green, with hairy leaves and a thorn at every tip
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 leaves | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 green | punct |
| 3 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 5 green | cc |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 3 rather | fixed |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Brown | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 leaves | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 leaves | case |
| 8 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 leaves | amod |
| 9 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thorn | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thorn | det |
| 12 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaves | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 tip | case |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 tip | det |
| 15 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thorn | 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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