Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending,…
Was there still a tree in the tea-pot at the end?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: tree
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 1 Was | expl |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 tree | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Was | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 pot | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pot | det |
| 8 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pot | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 tea | punct |
| 10 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | nmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pot | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Was | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a tree in the tea pot at the end | there | vn exist-47.1 «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
Nope, just tea leaves in it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 leaves | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 leaves | advmod |
| 4 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaves | compound |
| 5 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leaves | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nope, no tree, just the tea-pot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 tree | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tree | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pot | punct |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 pot | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pot | det |
| 8 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pot | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 tea | punct |
| 10 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Nope, no tree, just the tea-pot standing on the table in the house
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 tree | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tree | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pot | punct |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 pot | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pot | det |
| 8 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pot | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 tea | punct |
| 10 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | conj |
| 11 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 pot | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 table | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 table | det |
| 14 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 standing | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 standing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | the tea pot not said here | the table | in the house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location |
Option 4
Yeah, a tiny tree in the tea-pot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 tree | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tree | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 4 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tree | amod |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 pot | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pot | det |
| 8 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pot | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 tea | punct |
| 10 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | 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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