Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending,…

Wait, who is Old Nanny actually?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: Old Nanny

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Nanny	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 Nanny	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Nanny	cop
5	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Nanny	amod
6	Nanny	Nanny	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	1 Wait	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here					actually property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		Old Nanny					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

Just a kind old lady who minds the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	5 lady	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lady	det
3	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 minds	nsubj
7	minds	mind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lady	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 minds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mind	present	a kind old lady	the boy					vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Remembrance, the tree lady in disguise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lady	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lady	compound
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Remembrance	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 disguise	case
7	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lady	nmod

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

Option 3

A tree lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lady	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lady	compound
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Just Nanny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 Nanny	advmod
2	Nanny	Nanny	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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