Test 5 · ★ · Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfin Hill, part 33: the…

and when the pot smashed, what was in the bits?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: pot · What happens: smash, be · To what, where: bits

This is test 5 · ★ 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 smashed	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 smashed	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pot	det
4	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smashed	nsubj
5	smashed	smash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bits	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 bits	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bits	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 bits	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bits	det
11	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 smashed	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 smashed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	past	the pot						vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is	past				the bits			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 · ✓ the right answer

A whitened skull, proper creepy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 skull	det
2	whitened	whiten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 skull	amod
3	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 skull	punct
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creepy	amod
6	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 skull	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whiten	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

A dead beetle, proper gross, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 beetle	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beetle	amod
3	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gross	punct
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gross	amod
6	gross	gross	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beetle	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beetle	conj

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

Option 3

Bones, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bones	conj

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

Option 4

A rotten root, bruv, mostly dirt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 root	det
2	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 root	amod
3	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bruv	punct
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 root	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dirt	punct
7	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	8 dirt	advmod
8	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 root	conj

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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