Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees…

what's the water like, is it mad weedy?

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

This is test 9 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 weedy	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	1 what	case
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 weedy	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 weedy	nsubj
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 weedy	amod
10	weedy	weedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 weedy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the water						tree rules
2	is	present	water					weedy property	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

yellow lilies and brown reeds grow there along the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lilies	amod
2	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 reeds	cc
4	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reeds	amod
5	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lilies	conj
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 grow	advmod
8	along	along	ADP	_	10 bank	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bank	det
10	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	yellow lilies and brown reeds			the bank; there			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bank=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it's dark and cold and full of slimy green weed everywhere

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 dark	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dark	cop
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cold	cc
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dark	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 full	cc
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dark	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 weed	case
9	slimy	slimy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 weed	amod
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 weed	amod
11	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 full	obl
12	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 dark	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	it	dark, everywhere property	tree rules
2	be				tree rules
3	be			of slimy green weed	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yellow lilies and brown reeds grow there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lilies	amod
2	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 reeds	cc
4	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reeds	amod
5	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lilies	conj
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	yellow lilies and brown reeds			there			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

dark cold water and some fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fish	cc
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 water	conj

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

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