Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bird of Popular Song, part 13: the s…

Why'd the lime trees grow so big?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lime trees · What happens: grow

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 802 «Andersen's Tales, The Bird of Popular Song, part 13: the singer wakes the king's spirit, the Bird of Song flies out, and we arrive at Borglum» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 grow	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 grow	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
4	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trees	compound
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	nsubj
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 big	advmod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grow	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the lime trees					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 soil's good, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soil	det
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 good	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 soil	case
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct
6	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 good	discourse

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sheltered from the wind by the walls, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sheltered	shelter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 wind	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sheltered	obl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 walls	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walls	det
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sheltered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walls	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shelter	participle				the wind		by the walls and bro	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wall=Location

Option 3

The sun was strong all summer, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strong	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strong	cop
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 summer	det
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strong	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
8	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strong	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sun				summer	strong property	tree rules

Option 4

Warm weather, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 weather	amod
2	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bro	punct
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 weather	conj

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

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