Test 6 · ★ · Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wif…

bro who even planted that juniper tree in the court?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: plant · To what, where: juniper tree, court

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 763 «Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wife wishes for a red-and-white child, and her stepson's life turns dark» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 planted	vocative
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 planted	nsubj
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 planted	advmod
4	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 tree	mark
6	juniper	juniper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 planted	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 court	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 court	det
10	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 planted	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 planted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	past		juniper tree		the court		bro vocative	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in court=Destination

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

it had been growing there

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	4 growing	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 growing	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 growing	aux
4	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 growing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · perfect · progressive	it			there			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it was planted by the boy's grandfather long ago

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	3 planted	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 planted	aux:pass
3	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 grandfather	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grandfather	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 boy	case
8	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 planted	obl
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 ago	advmod
10	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 planted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	past · passive	the boy's grandfather	it				ago property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 3

the stepmum planted it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stepmum	det
2	stepmum	stepmum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 planted	nsubj
3	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 planted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	past	the stepmum	it					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

the first wife planted it years before this day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 planted	nsubj
4	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 planted	obj
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 planted	obl:unmarked
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 planted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	past	the first wife	it			day; year		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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