Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels…

so the caterpillar said it would turn into what, fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: caterpillar · What happens: say, turn · To what, where: fr · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 798 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels: a vain beetle wants golden shoes and finds only mud» 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	_	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 caterpillar	det
3	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 turn	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	aux
7	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 what	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 turn	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fr	punct
11	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turn	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the caterpillar						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	turn	would	caterpillar	fr					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into what=Trajectory

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 · ✓ the right answer

A butterfly with wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 butterfly	det
2	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 wings	case
4	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 butterfly	nmod

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

Option 2

A dragonfly with blue wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dragonfly	det
2	dragonfly	dragonfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 wings	case
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wings	amod
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dragonfly	nmod

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

Option 3

A lovely creature that flies over every garden in the whole land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 creature	det
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 creature	amod
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 flies	nsubj
5	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 creature	acl:relcl
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 garden	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 garden	det
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flies	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 land	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 land	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 land	amod
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	a lovely creature			every garden		in the whole land	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over garden=Location

Option 4

A bright butterfly with beautiful painted wings in every colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 butterfly	det
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 butterfly	amod
3	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 wings	case
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wings	amod
6	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wings	amod
7	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 butterfly	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 colour	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 colour	det
10	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wings	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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