Test 11 · ★ · Slavic Tales, Snowflake: a snow girl comes alive, then mel…

Proper question, where did Snowflake like sitting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Snowflake · What happens: like, sit

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1637 «Slavic Tales, Snowflake: a snow girl comes alive, then melts at Midsummer» 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	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 question	amod
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 like	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 like	aux
6	Snowflake	Snowflake	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 like	nsubj
7	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 question	appos
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 like	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 question	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past · do-support	Snowflake						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sit not said to happen	gerund	Snowflake not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Among tall reeds and birches on the bank of a wide and noisy river nearby

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Among	among	ADP	_	3 reeds	case
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reeds	amod
3	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 birches	cc
5	birches	birch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reeds	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 bank	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bank	det
8	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reeds	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	14 river	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 river	det
11	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 river	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 noisy	cc
13	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wide	conj
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bank	nmod
15	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	14 river	advmod

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

Option 2

Under old oak trees by a pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	4 trees	case
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trees	amod
3	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trees	compound
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 pond	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pond	det
7	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trees	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Among green willows by a stream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Among	among	ADP	_	3 willows	case
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 willows	amod
3	willows	willow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 stream	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stream	det
6	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 willows	nmod

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

Option 4

Deep in the forest shade where the cold brook runs under the big mossy stones

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deep	deep	ADV	_	5 shade	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 shade	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shade	det
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shade	compound
5	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 runs	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brook	det
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brook	amod
9	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 runs	nsubj
10	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shade	advcl
11	under	under	ADP	_	15 stones	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stones	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stones	amod
14	mossy	mossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stones	amod
15	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 runs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	the cold brook			the big mossy stones			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under stone=Trajectory

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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