Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending,…

What did the crowns look like when they landed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crowns · What happens: do, look, land

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 296 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending, Remembrance flies through the seasons and the old couple wear golden crowns» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crowns	det
4	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	nsubj
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 landed	mark
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 landed	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 landed	nsubj
9	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 look	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		tree rules
2	look	present	the crowns	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	land	past	crowns = crown	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: 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

Gold rings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rings	compound
2	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Green leaves on their hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 leaves	amod
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 hair	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hair	nmod:poss
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Golden crowns on their heads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 crowns	amod
2	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 heads	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heads	nmod:poss
5	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crowns	nmod

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

Option 4

Silver rings on their fingers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rings	amod
2	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 fingers	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fingers	nmod:poss
5	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rings	nmod

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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