Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's tales, The Dryad, part 27: the chestnut is carr…

what does she compare herself to, like a vibe?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: compare · To what, where: herself

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 816 «Andersen's tales, The Dryad, part 27: the chestnut is carried to Paris and the Dryad longs to be human» 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	4 compare	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 compare	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 compare	nsubj
4	compare	compare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 compare	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 vibe	case
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 vibe	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 vibe	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 vibe	det
10	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 compare	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 compare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compare	present · do-support	she	herself = she				to a vibe	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 · ← Mova's choice

a hawk circling high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hawk	det
2	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	circling	circle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 hawk	acl
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 circling	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	circle	gerund	a hawk not said here					high property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

a lonely cloud drifting slowly away over the hills and the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cloud	det
2	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cloud	amod
3	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	drifting	drift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 cloud	acl
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 drifting	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 drifting	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 hills	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hills	det
9	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drifting	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 river	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hills	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift away	gerund	a lonely cloud not said here			the hills and the river		away, slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory

Option 3

a wisp of smoke fading slowly over the rooftops of the city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wisp	det
2	wisp	wisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 smoke	case
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wisp	nmod
5	fading	fade	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 wisp	acl
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 fading	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 rooftops	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rooftops	det
9	rooftops	rooftop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fading	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 city	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 city	det
12	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rooftops	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	gerund	a wisp of smoke not said here			the rooftops of the city		slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a cloud drifting away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cloud	det
2	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	drifting	drift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 cloud	acl
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 drifting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift away	gerund	a cloud not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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