Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, part 25: a lonely o…

what's that pink flower pot on about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: pink flower pot

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 298 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, part 25: a lonely old man and a gift» 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	6 pot	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pot	cop
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 pot	nsubj
4	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pot	amod
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pot	compound
6	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 about	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	6 pot	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 pot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		pink flower pot					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

It says a king's son will visit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 visit	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 visit	aux
8	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	It						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	visit	future	a king's son						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It says hello

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hello	hello	INTJ	_	2 says	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	It						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic

Option 3

It says the apes are coming soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 apes	det
4	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 coming	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 coming	aux
6	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 says	ccomp
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 coming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	It						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	present · progressive	the apes					soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It says a little flower comes on Sunday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flower	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flower	amod
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	nsubj
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Sunday	case
8	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	It						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	present	a little flower				sunday		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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