Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1:…
did the old lady December bring a tree in a flower pot?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old lady · What happens: bring · To what, where: tree, flower pot
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 887 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1: twelve months arrive by coach, and storks gossip about a lost swan-princess» 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bring | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lady | amod |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 5 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lady | appos |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pot | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pot | det |
| 11 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pot | compound |
| 12 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · do-support | the old lady | a tree | a flower pot | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tree=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
Nope, a basket of pears, and a lamp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 basket | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 basket | det |
| 4 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pears | case |
| 6 | pears | pear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 basket | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lamp | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lamp | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lamp | det |
| 10 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 basket | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a little fir, and a fire stool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 fir | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fir | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fir | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fir | amod |
| 5 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stool | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stool | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stool | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stool | compound |
| 10 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fir | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yeah, a little fir in a flower pot, and a fire stool and a wreath, lol
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 fir | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fir | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fir | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fir | amod |
| 5 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pot | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pot | det |
| 8 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pot | compound |
| 9 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fir | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stool | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stool | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stool | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stool | compound |
| 14 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fir | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wreath | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wreath | det |
| 17 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stool | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fir | punct |
| 19 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 5 fir | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, she had a whole tree plus a fire stool and a sleigh full of nuts
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tree | amod |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 11 stool | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stool | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stool | compound |
| 11 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sleigh | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sleigh | det |
| 14 | sleigh | sleigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | conj |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sleigh | amod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 nuts | case |
| 17 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 full | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | she | a whole tree plus a fire stool and a sleigh | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
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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