Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending,…

What's the maiden's actual name, fam?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: actual name, maiden · What happens: be, name

This is test 9 · ★ 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	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maiden	det
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 name	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 maiden	case
6	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 name	amod
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fam	punct
9	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 name	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the maiden's actual name and fam						tree rules
2	name		the maiden						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

Remembrance, the tree lady who sits in the Elder

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	appos
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sits	nsubj
7	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lady	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 Elder	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Elder	det
10	Elder	Elder	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sits	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	the tree lady			the Elder			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in elder=Location

Option 2

Remembrance, she said, sitting in the tree that grows by the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Remembrance	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 said	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 grows	nsubj
11	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tree	acl:relcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she	Remembrance			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sit	gerund	she not said here		the tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location
3	grow	present	the tree			by the house	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by house=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Remembrance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Clementine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clementine	clementine	NOUN	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/296-pg1597-part23/t9/