Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, part 25: a lonely o…

what was that bit on the walls that said the gilding decays?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bit, walls · What happens: be, say · To what, where: gilding decays · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 walls	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walls	det
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bit	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 walls	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 decays	det
11	gilding	gilding	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 decays	compound
12	decays	decay	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that bit on the walls						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the walls	the gilding decays					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent decay=Topic

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

A message from the old king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 message	det
2	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 king	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 king	amod
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 message	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A rhyme the walls sang out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rhyme	det
2	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 walls	det
4	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sang	nsubj
5	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 sang	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing out speech: express	past	a rhyme						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

A poem carved on the beam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 poem	det
2	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 poem	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 beam	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beam	det
6	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	participle		a poem not said here		the beam			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on beam=Destination

Option 4

A song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 song	det
2	song	song	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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