Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bu…

real talk, what did mum put in the pot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: real talk · What happens: put · To what, where: pot

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 295 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bush grows from a teapot and shows an old couple's golden day» 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	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	nsubj:outer
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 put	aux
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	nsubj
7	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 pot	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pot	det
10	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · do-support	real talk			the pot			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pot=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 · ← Mova's choice

mint leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	compound
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

elder-flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flowers	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 elder	punct
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

rose petals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 petals	compound
2	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

a handful of fresh elder-flowers picked from the bush outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 handful	det
2	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 flowers	case
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flowers	amod
5	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flowers	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 elder	punct
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 handful	nmod
8	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 flowers	acl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 bush	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bush	det
11	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 picked	obl
12	outside	outside	ADV	_	8 picked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	participle		fresh elder flowers not said here				from the bush; outside property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent from bush=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/295-pg1597-part22/t11/