Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christm…

who was chilling on the grass blade, lol?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: chill · To what, where: grass blade

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 867 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christmas storm uproots the oak as he dreams of summer and of all the small plants rising up with him» 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 chilling	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chilling	aux
3	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 blade	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 blade	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blade	compound
7	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chilling	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lol	punct
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 chilling	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 chilling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	past · progressive				the grass blade			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 dragonfly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dragonfly	det
2	dragonfly	dragonfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a tiny beetle polishing its shiny wings in the sun

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	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beetle	amod
3	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	polishing	polish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 beetle	acl
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wings	nmod:poss
6	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wings	amod
7	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 polishing	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sun	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sun	det
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 polishing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	polish	gerund	a tiny beetle not said here	beetle's shiny wings		the sun			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent wing=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a grasshopper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grasshopper	det
2	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a ladybird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ladybird	det
2	ladybird	ladybird	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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