Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole a…
Fam, what did the flower King put on her head?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fam, King · What happens: do, put · To what, where: flower, head
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flower | det |
| 6 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 put | nsubj |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Fam | the flower | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | put | past | King | Fam's head | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on head=Destination |
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
his golden crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 crown | nmod:poss |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crown | amod |
| 3 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | his = he | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
his silver hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hat | compound |
| 3 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the golden crown of the little flower king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crown | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crown | amod |
| 3 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 king | amod |
| 7 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | compound |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crown | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | the little flower king | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
the velvet hat from his own royal head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hat | det |
| 2 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hat | compound |
| 3 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 head | amod |
| 7 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 head | amod |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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