Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees…

so the trees were like the pillars and all that, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trees · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 801 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees the sunset, meets the poor boy, and the old Bell tells its tales» 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	_	7 pillars	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pillars	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pillars	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 pillars	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pillars	det
7	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 that	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 that	det:predet
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 pillars	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 that	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 that	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 pillars	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the trees					like the pillars; that nmod	tree rules

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

yeah the clouds made the roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clouds	det
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 roof	det
6	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the clouds	the roof					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset roof=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah the rocks made the pillars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rocks	det
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pillars	det
6	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the rocks	the pillars					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pillar=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah the trees made the pillars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 trees	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pillars	det
6	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the trees	the pillars					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pillar=Product

Option 4

nah the monks built the pillars out of stone blocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 built	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monks	det
3	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 built	nsubj
4	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pillars	det
6	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 built	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 blocks	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 blocks	case
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blocks	compound
10	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	the monks	the pillars		stone blocks			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillar=Product

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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