Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wi…

who was the one with the tiny violets, like a proper softy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: one

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 886 «Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wise man hunts the loveliest rose, then twelve months arrive at the town gate on New Year's Eve» 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 one	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 one	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 violets	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 violets	det
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 violets	amod
8	violets	violet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 softy	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 softy	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 softy	det
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 softy	amod
13	softy	softy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the one and a proper softy				with the tiny violets	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

the one with a bunch of tiny violets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 bunch	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bunch	det
5	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 violets	case
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 violets	amod
8	violets	violet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bunch	nmod

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

Option 2

the modest month with violets pinned on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 month	det
2	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 month	amod
3	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 violets	case
5	violets	violet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 month	nmod
6	pinned	pin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 violets	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 pinned	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pin on	participle		violets not said here					vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

August

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	August	August	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

March

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	March	March	PROPN	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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