Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to th…

lowkey, did the flowers all give Tiny a present, or was it just the prince?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey, flowers, present · What happens: do, give, be · To what, where: prince

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 884 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to the mole, flies off with the swallow, and is named Maia; then Little Tuk's story starts.» 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flowers	det
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 give	nsubj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 give	advmod
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	Tiny	tiny	ADP	_	10 present	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 present	det
10	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 prince	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 prince	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 prince	cop
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 prince	nsubj
15	just	just	ADV	_	17 prince	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 prince	det
17	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	lowkey			tree rules
2	give	present	the flowers		tiny a present; all property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	past	present	the prince		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 · ✓ the right answer

each flower brought a gift

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 flower	det
2	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 gift	det
5	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	each flower	a gift					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gift=Theme

Option 2

the flowers gave nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flowers	det
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the flowers	nothing					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

all the flowers came with a gift for the bride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 flowers	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flowers	det
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 gift	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gift	det
7	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 bride	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bride	det
10	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	all flowers					with a gift; for the bride	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

each flower brought a gift and a kiss to Tiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 flower	det
2	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 gift	det
5	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kiss	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kiss	det
8	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gift	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Tiny	case
10	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	each flower	a gift and a kiss	Tiny				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to tiny=Destination

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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