Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Elder-Tree Mother, part 82: Little…

What's the old woman in the tree wearing, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old woman · What happens: be, wear

This is test 9 · ★ 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	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 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 woman	nmod
9	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 woman	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wearing	vocative
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the old woman in the tree						tree rules
2	wear	gerund	the old woman in the tree not said here					mate vocative	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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

A blue cloak with silver buttons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cloak	det
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cloak	amod
3	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 buttons	case
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buttons	compound
6	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cloak	nmod

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

Option 2

A yellow robe with gold trim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 robe	det
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 robe	amod
3	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 trim	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trim	compound
6	trim	trim	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 robe	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A green dress with white blossoms on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dress	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dress	amod
3	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 blossoms	case
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blossoms	amod
6	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dress	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blossoms	nmod

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

Option 4

A red dress with black stripes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dress	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dress	amod
3	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 stripes	case
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stripes	amod
6	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dress	nmod

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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