Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bu…

so how did a whole bush show up in the teapot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: whole bush · What happens: do, show up · To what, where: teapot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	7 show	advmod
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 show	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 show	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bush	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bush	amod
6	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 show	nsubj
7	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 show	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 teapot	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 teapot	det
11	teapot	teapot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 show	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	show up	present	a whole bush			the teapot			tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

the lid lifted and flowers shot out the spout

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lid	det
2	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lifted	nsubj
3	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shot	cc
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shot	nsubj
6	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	conj
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 shot	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spout	det
9	spout	spout	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	past	the lid						vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	shoot out	past	flowers	the spout					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spout=Theme

Option 2

a branch pushed up through the handle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 branch	det
2	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 branch	acl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 pushed	compound:prt
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 handle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 handle	det
7	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push up	participle		a branch not said here		the handle			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through handle=Trajectory

Option 3

the old granny pushed the bush inside the pot while the boy was sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 granny	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 granny	amod
3	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pushed	nsubj
4	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bush	det
6	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pushed	obj
7	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 pot	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pot	det
9	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pushed	obl
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 sleeping	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sleeping	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sleeping	aux
14	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 pushed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	the old granny	the bush		the pot			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bush=Theme inside pot=Trajectory
2	sleep	past · progressive	the boy						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the bush grew out of the cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bush	det
2	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 cup	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cup	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cup	det
7	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow out	past	the bush	the cup					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cup=Theme

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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