Test 7 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors…

did the gardener grow flowers or herbs they wanted?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gardener, flowers · What happens: grow, want · To what, where: flowers

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 2063 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors follow the smell of roast meat up to the palace» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gardener	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gardener	det
3	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 herbs	cc
7	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flowers	conj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flowers	acl:relcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	the gardener	flowers or herbs					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme
2	want	past	flowers = flower	flowers or herbs not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flower=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

Flowers for the table, nice ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 table	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 table	det
4	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flowers	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ones	punct
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Flowers	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Herbs for stuffing, all meat stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 stuffing	case
3	stuffing	stuffing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Herbs	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stuff	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 stuff	det
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuff	compound
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Herbs	conj

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

Option 3

Onions for the sauce, all bland stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 sauce	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sauce	det
4	sauce	sauce	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Onions	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stuff	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 stuff	det
7	bland	bland	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stuff	amod
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Onions	conj

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

Option 4

Flowers along the path, but mostly herbs for stuffing, all meat stuff innit

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	along	along	ADP	_	4 path	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 path	det
4	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flowers	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 herbs	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 herbs	cc
7	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	8 herbs	advmod
8	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Flowers	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 stuffing	case
10	stuffing	stuffing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 herbs	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 innit	det
13	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stuff	compound
14	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 innit	compound
15	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flowers	conj

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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