Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole a…

Bro, what did Thumbelina cling to when she said bye to the sun?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: do, say · To what, where: Thumbelina cling · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
5	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cling	compound
6	cling	cling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 said	case
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 said	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
11	bye	bye	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 sun	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sun	det
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bye	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Thumbelina cling					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cling=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	she					bye property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

a little red flower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 flower	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flower	amod
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flower	amod
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a tiny white daisy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 daisy	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 daisy	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 daisy	amod
4	daisy	daisy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a red rose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rose	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rose	amod
3	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the swallow's warm wing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 swallow	det
2	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wing	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 swallow	case
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wing	amod
5	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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