Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plan…
Was the plant dead when the girl got it home, or what?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: be, get · To what, where: plant
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 847 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plant is lost and a king grieves» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 plant | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 plant | det |
| 3 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dead | csubj |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 got | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dead | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | obj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 what | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 dead | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 dead | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the plant | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | past | the girl | plant | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, the leaf stayed green in her Bible
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 leaf | det |
| 4 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stayed | nsubj |
| 5 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stayed | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Bible | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Bible | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stayed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | the leaf | leaf's Bible | green property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bible=Location |
Option 2
Nah, it went all brown in the Bible
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 brown | det |
| 6 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Bible | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Bible | det |
| 9 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | it | the Bible | brown property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bible=Location |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, it went brown and dry, but she kept the leaf in her Bible anyway
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 brown | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brown | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brown | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brown | cop |
| 5 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dry | cc |
| 7 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brown | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kept | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 kept | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kept | nsubj |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brown | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 leaf | det |
| 13 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Bible | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Bible | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | obl |
| 17 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 11 kept | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | brown property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | keep | past | she | the leaf | her Bible | anyway property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme in bible=Location |
Option 4
Nah, the leaf stayed green in her Bible and the girl kept it safe for years
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 leaf | det |
| 4 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stayed | nsubj |
| 5 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stayed | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Bible | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Bible | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stayed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kept | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kept | nsubj |
| 13 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stayed | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kept | obj |
| 15 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kept | xcomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 years | case |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 safe | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | the leaf | leaf's Bible | green property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bible=Location | |||
| 2 | keep | past | the girl | it | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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