Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bu…

fr who is old Granny, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: be · To what, where: old Granny

This is test 4 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Granny	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 Granny	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Granny	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Granny	amod
5	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 real	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 real	case
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Granny	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Granny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	fr	old Granny					tree rules
2	be		fr not said here						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 tree spirit who lives in the bush and the mother of all elder trees

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spirit	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spirit	compound
3	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lives	nsubj
5	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spirit	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 bush	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bush	det
8	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lives	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mother	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bush	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 trees	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 trees	det
14	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 trees	amod
15	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mother	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the tree spirit			the bush and the mother of all elder trees			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bush=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the elder tree mother in the bush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
2	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mother	amod
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mother	compound
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 bush	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bush	det
7	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mother	nmod

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

Option 3

the wise woman of the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 woman	nmod

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

Option 4

the old woman who lives at the top of the house and tells the children tales

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tells	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lives	nsubj
5	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 woman	acl:relcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 top	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 top	det
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lives	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 top	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lives	cc
13	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 children	det
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tales	compound
16	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the old woman			the top of the house			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location
2	tell speech: assert	present	the old woman	children tales					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient

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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