Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole a…

Dead serious, what tinkled on the flowers in the garden?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: tinkle · To what, where: flowers

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1742 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole and weds a flower prince» 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 serious	amod
2	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tinkled	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 tinkled	nsubj
5	tinkled	tinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 serious	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 flowers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flowers	det
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tinkled	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 garden	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 garden	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tinkled	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 serious	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tinkle	past				the flowers		in the garden	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on flower=Location

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

soft music

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 music	amod
2	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a choir of tiny singing birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 choir	det
2	choir	choir	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 birds	case
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 birds	amod
5	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 birds	compound
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 choir	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

silver bells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bells	compound
2	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

bells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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