Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden…
Honest, what did the girl turn into?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: turn
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 turn | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 turn | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turn | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turn | nsubj |
| 7 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Honest | conj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 turn | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Honest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · do-support | the girl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=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 · ← Mova's choice
a beautiful grown woman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 3 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
a tall young woman in a silver dress
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dress | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dress | det |
| 7 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dress | amod |
| 8 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woman | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a charming young girl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 2 | charming | charming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a shining spirit of the old elder tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spirit | det |
| 2 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 spirit | amod |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tree | amod |
| 7 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spirit | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/872-pg27200-part83/t12/