Test 10 · ★ · fairy tales (pg7277), The Little Soldier, part 37: John bu…

what's an immortelle anyway, sounds fancy

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: immortelle · What happens: be, sound · To what, where: immortelle, fancy

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1900 «fairy tales (pg7277), The Little Soldier, part 37: John buys a golden coach, plays cards with the King, and loses his purse and cloak to Ludovine» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 immortelle	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 immortelle	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 immortelle	det
4	immortelle	immortelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 immortelle	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sounds	punct
7	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 immortelle	acl:relcl
8	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sounds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a immortelle				anyway property	tree rules
2	sound	present	a immortelle not said here	fancy					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fancy=Theme

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

A type of silk ribbon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 type	det
2	type	type	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 ribbon	case
4	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ribbon	compound
5	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 type	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	type			silk ribbon					nom type «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

A rare green herb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 herb	det
2	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 herb	amod
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 herb	amod
4	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A small golden bird that sings in the palace gardens every spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sings	nsubj
6	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bird	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 gardens	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gardens	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gardens	compound
10	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sings	obl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 spring	det
12	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sings	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	a small golden bird			the palace gardens	spring		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A flower that lasts forever, like a dried one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 flower	det
2	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lasts	nsubj
4	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 flower	acl:relcl
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 lasts	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 one	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flower	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	present	a flower and a dried one					forever property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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