Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Elder-Tree Mother, part 82: Little…

Wait, so the teapot starts growing a whole tree?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, teapot · What happens: wait, start, grow · To what, where: whole tree

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 871 «Fairy Tales, The Little Elder-Tree Mother, part 82: Little Claus tricks Great Claus into the river, and an old man begins a story from the teapot» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 starts	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 starts	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teapot	det
5	teapot	teapot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 starts	nsubj
6	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
7	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 starts	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tree	amod
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 growing	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	start	present	the teapot		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	grow	gerund	the teapot not said here	a whole tree	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme

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

Nah, it cracks open and leaks everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 cracks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cracks	nsubj
4	cracks	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cracks	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 leaks	cc
7	leaks	leak	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cracks	conj
8	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 cracks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	present	it					everywhere, open property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, branches come out the spout, mad stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
3	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spout	det
7	spout	spout	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stuff	punct
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stuff	amod
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spout	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	branches	the spout and mad stuff				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient spout=Result

Option 3

Nah, it just fills up with tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fills	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fills	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 fills	advmod
5	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 fills	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 tea	case
8	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fills	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill up	present	it					with tea	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tea=Instrument

Option 4

Nah, a little frog pops out of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 pops	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 frog	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frog	amod
5	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pops	nsubj
6	pops	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 it	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pops	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pop out	present	a little frog	it					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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