Test 12 · ★ · Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfin Hill, part 33: the…
what's the old king's crown polished with?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crown, old king · What happens: be, polish, crown · To what, where: crown
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 822 «Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfin Hill, part 33: the wicked brother dies, the bees punish him, and the elves prepare a grand feast» 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 | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 what | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 king | amod |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crown | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 what | nsubj |
| 8 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 crown | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 polished | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the old king's crown | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | polish | participle | the old king's crown not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | crown | the old king | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
Ground silver and honey, the posh stuff from the castle store, proper fancy, bruv, not like the school
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ground | ground | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ground | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 honey | cc |
| 4 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 silver | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stuff | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stuff | det |
| 7 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stuff | amod |
| 8 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 silver | appos |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 store | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 store | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 store | compound |
| 12 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stuff | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fancy | punct |
| 14 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fancy | amod |
| 15 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 store | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bruv | punct |
| 17 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 store | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 school | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 school | advmod |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 school | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 school | det |
| 22 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ground | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ground | imperative | you not said here | silver and honey | like the school | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme silver=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Powdered slate-pencil, like the first form
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Powdered | powder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pencil | amod |
| 2 | slate | slate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pencil | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 slate | punct |
| 4 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 form | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 form | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 form | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 form | amod |
| 9 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pencil | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | powder | participle | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Powdered chalk, same as the lower form
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Powdered | powder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 chalk | amod |
| 2 | chalk | chalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 same | punct |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 chalk | amod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 form | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 form | det |
| 7 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 form | amod |
| 8 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 same | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | powder | participle | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Powdered slate-pencil, like the first form, which the teacher made us use for maths
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Powdered | powder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pencil | amod |
| 2 | slate | slate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pencil | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 slate | punct |
| 4 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 form | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 form | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 form | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 form | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 form | amod |
| 9 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 made | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 teacher | det |
| 13 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 form | advcl |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 made | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 maths | case |
| 18 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 use | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | powder | participle | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | make | past | the teacher | the first form | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | infinitive | the first form not said here | for maths | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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