Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's tales, The Dryad, part 27: the chestnut is carr…

how did the chimneys look, bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chimneys · What happens: look

This is test 13 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 look	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 look	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chimneys	det
4	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	nsubj
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bro	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	the chimneys						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 · ← Mova's choice

like giant bronze bells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	4 bells	case
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bells	amod
3	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bells	compound
4	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

like crooked brick towers rising above the roofs of the old town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	4 towers	case
2	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 towers	amod
3	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 towers	compound
4	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 towers	acl
6	above	above	ADP	_	8 roofs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 roofs	det
8	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rising	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 town	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 town	amod
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roofs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	gerund	crooked brick towers not said here			the roofs of the old town			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above roof=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

like flower-pots in rows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	4 pots	case
2	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pots	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 flower	punct
4	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 rows	case
6	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pots	nmod

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

Option 4

like tall brick towers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	4 towers	case
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 towers	amod
3	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 towers	compound
4	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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