Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow and the Carter: the bird'…

did the princesses really have leaves made of silver, like proper bling

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princesses · What happens: have, make · To what, where: leaves

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 732 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow and the Carter: the bird's revenge, then the twelve dancing princesses begin» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princesses	det
3	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 leaves	acl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 silver	case
9	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bling	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 bling	case
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bling	amod
13	bling	bling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	the princesses	leaves					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
2	make	participle		leaves not said here				of silver	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the trees glittered and sparkled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 trees	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	glittered	glitter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 trees	acl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sparkled	cc
7	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 glittered	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glitter	participle		the trees not said here					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sparkle	participle							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

yeah, the leaves in the grove shone and rang like bells when they moved

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 shone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shone	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 leaves	det
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shone	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 grove	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grove	det
7	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	nmod
8	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rang	cc
10	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shone	conj
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 bells	case
12	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rang	obl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 moved	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 moved	nsubj
15	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shone	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the leaves in the grove		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ring	past	the leaves in the grove not said here	like bells	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	move	past	leaves = leaf		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, the trees glittered and sparkled like real silver in the moonlight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 glittered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 glittered	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 glittered	nsubj
5	glittered	glitter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sparkled	cc
7	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 glittered	conj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 silver	case
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 silver	amod
10	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sparkled	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 moonlight	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 moonlight	det
13	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sparkled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glitter	participle	the trees						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sparkle	participle	the trees not said here			the moonlight		like real silver	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonlight=Location

Option 4

yes, the grove looked like gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grove	det
4	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 gold	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the grove					like gold	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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