Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part…

What were the walls covered with, like posters?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, cover · To what, where: walls

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1937 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part 1: a greedy wife keeps asking the flounder for more» 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 walls	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walls	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 walls	det
4	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 walls	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	5 covered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 posters	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 posters	case
9	posters	poster	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walls	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 walls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the walls and posters					tree rules
2	cover	participle		the walls and posters not said here					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

great red banners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 banners	amod
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 banners	amod
3	banners	banner	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

fine silk hangings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hangings	amod
2	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hangings	compound
3	hangings	hanging	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

beautiful tapestry hung up on golden hooks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tapestry	amod
2	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tapestry	acl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 hung	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 hooks	case
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hooks	amod
7	hooks	hook	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang up	participle		beautiful tapestry not said here		golden hooks			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hook=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

beautiful tapestry hung up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tapestry	amod
2	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tapestry	acl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 hung	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang up	participle		beautiful tapestry not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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