Test 10 · ★ · The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prin…

Was the ground under the trees soft and green, or dead muddy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1689 «The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prince Saphir sets out to find the magic bird that cured his father» 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	7 soft	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ground	det
3	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Was	nsubj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 trees	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Was	obl
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 green	cc
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 soft	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 muddy	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 muddy	cc
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 muddy	amod
13	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 soft	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 soft	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	is	past	soft property	tree rules
2	be			tree rules
3	be			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

Hard and grey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 grey	cc
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hard	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Soft and green with rare flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 green	cc
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Soft	conj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 flowers	case
5	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flowers	amod
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Soft	obl

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

Option 3

Soft and brown with dark moss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 brown	cc
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Soft	conj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 moss	case
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moss	amod
6	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Soft	obl

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

Option 4

Dry and brown with dead leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 brown	cc
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Dry	conj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 leaves	case
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 leaves	amod
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dry	obl

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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