Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden…

Dead right, what was the snow like in winter?

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

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 872 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden wedding and the boy's flight through the seasons» 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	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 right	advmod
2	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 snow	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 snow	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 snow	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snow	det
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 right	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 winter	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 winter	case
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snow	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the snow			winter		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

as thick as a warm woolly blanket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 thick	advmod
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	7 blanket	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 blanket	det
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 blanket	amod
6	woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 blanket	amod
7	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thick	obl

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

Option 2

a soft white blanket covering the fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 blanket	det
2	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blanket	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blanket	amod
4	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	covering	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 blanket	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fields	det
7	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 covering	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	gerund	a soft white blanket not said here	the fields					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme field=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

like new boots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	3 boots	case
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boots	amod
3	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

white flour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flour	amod
2	flour	flour	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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