Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, By the Almshouse Window, part 2: a pasto…

so basically the angel's kissing flowers and they sing in heaven

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: flowers · What happens: kiss, sing · To what, where: flowers, heaven

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 791 «Andersen's Tales, By the Almshouse Window, part 2: a pastor's dream of sinners, then an old maid watches children play while an angel carries a dead child to heaven» 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 basically	advmod
2	basically	basically	ADV	_	6 kissing	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 angel	det
4	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kissing	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 angel	case
6	kissing	kiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kissing	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sing	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sing	nsubj
10	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kissing	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 heaven	case
12	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	gerund		flowers				basically property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Co-Agent
2	sing speech: express	present	flowers = flower			heaven			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heaven=Location

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

yeah, God kisses the flower so it talks, cool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kisses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kisses	nsubj
4	kisses	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flower	det
6	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kisses	obj
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 talks	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 talks	nsubj
9	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kisses	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cool	punct
11	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kisses	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	present	God	the flower					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Co-Agent
2	talk	present	flower						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

ya, the flowers sing in heaven, sick right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ya	ya	INTJ	_	4 flowers	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ya	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flowers	det
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sing	nsubj
5	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 heaven	case
7	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 right	punct
9	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 right	amod
10	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heaven	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	the flowers			heaven and sick right			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heaven=Location

Option 3

ya, they sing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ya	ya	INTJ	_	4 sing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ya	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sing	nsubj
4	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

ya, the flower God likes best gets a voice, sick right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ya	ya	INTJ	_	4 flower	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ya	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flower	det
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 likes	nsubj
5	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 flower	appos
6	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 gets	amod
8	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 likes	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 voice	det
10	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gets	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct
12	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 right	amod
13	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 voice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	the flower						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	get	present	the flower not said here	a voice and sick right					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=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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