Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Buckwheat: a proud buckwheat defies…

lowkey, what did the buckwheat call the willow?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: buckwheat · What happens: call · To what, where: willow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 807 «Andersen's Tales, The Buckwheat: a proud buckwheat defies the storm and is burnt black» 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 call	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 call	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 call	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 buckwheat	det
6	buckwheat	buckwheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	nsubj
7	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 willow	det
9	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	the buckwheat	the willow				lowkey vocative	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme willow=Result

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

He called it a stupid tree that weeps all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
5	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tree	amod
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	xcomp
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 weeps	nsubj
8	weeps	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tree	acl:relcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 weeps	obl:unmarked
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 weeps	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	He	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	weep	present	a stupid tree				day	long property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Stupid tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tree	amod
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Dumb stump

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stump	amod
2	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Silly weed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 weed	amod
2	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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