Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, part 24: the bell draws…

Where did the mad kid end up, like the thorny bit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mad kid · What happens: be, end up

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 297 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, part 24: the bell draws the town into the wood, and only a few go on» 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 end	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kid	det
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kid	amod
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
6	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 end	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bit	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 bit	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bit	det
11	thorny	thorny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bit	amod
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 end	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the mad kid					where property	tree rules
2	end up	present						like the thorny bit	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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 right answer

the darkest, thickest wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 darkest	det
2	darkest	dark	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 darkest	punct
4	thickest	thick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 wood	amod
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 darkest	obj

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

Option 2

the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the darkest, thickest part of the wood where the thorns grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 part	det
2	darkest	dark	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 part	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 darkest	punct
4	thickest	thick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 part	amod
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	nmod
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 grow	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thorns	det
11	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grow	nsubj
12	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wood	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	the thorns						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

the nearest village mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mill	det
2	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 mill	amod
3	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mill	compound
4	mill	mill	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.

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