Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the s…

what did the baby plant by the statue, like a bush or a tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: baby plant

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 876 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the sea-princesses dream of the world above the waves» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plant	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plant	compound
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 statue	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 statue	det
8	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bush	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 bush	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bush	det
12	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	parataxis
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 tree	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bush	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the baby plant				by the statue	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

a rose-colored weeping willow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 willow	det
2	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 colored	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 rose	punct
4	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 willow	amod
5	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 willow	compound
6	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	color	participle							vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

a rose-colored weeping willow with silver leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 willow	det
2	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 colored	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 rose	punct
4	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 willow	amod
5	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 willow	compound
6	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 leaves	case
8	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaves	compound
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 willow	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	color	participle							vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

a golden kelp in a ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kelp	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kelp	amod
3	kelp	kelp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 ring	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ring	det
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kelp	nmod

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

Option 4

a row of red roses along the statue's base

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 row	det
2	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 roses	case
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 roses	amod
5	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 row	nmod
6	along	along	ADP	_	10 base	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 statue	det
8	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 base	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 statue	case
10	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roses	nmod

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

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