Test 11 · ★ · Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving moth…

the grave looked like what, a big bunch of flowers, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: look · To what, where: grave

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 809 «Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving mother slips out to her son's grave at night and meets a stranger» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grave	det
2	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 grave	acl
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 what	case
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 looked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bunch	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bunch	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bunch	amod
9	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	acl:relcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 flowers	case
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bunch	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 grave	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	2 grave	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 grave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	participle		the grave not said here				like the grave	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

a large nosegay of fragrant flowers laid on a stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nosegay	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nosegay	amod
3	nosegay	nosegay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 flowers	case
5	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flowers	amod
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nosegay	nmod
7	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 flowers	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 stone	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stone	det
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	participle		fragrant flowers not said here		a stone			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on stone=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a small patch of violets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 patch	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 patch	amod
3	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 violets	case
5	violets	violet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 patch	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a nosegay of fragrant flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 nosegay	det
2	nosegay	nosegay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 flowers	case
4	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flowers	amod
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 nosegay	nmod

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

Option 4

a tall marble stone covered with a great nosegay of fragrant red flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stone	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stone	amod
3	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stone	compound
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stone	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 nosegay	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 nosegay	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nosegay	amod
9	nosegay	nosegay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 flowers	case
11	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flowers	amod
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flowers	amod
13	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nosegay	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle		a tall marble stone not said here				with a great nosegay of fragrant red flowers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with nosegay=Theme

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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