Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 117: the Moon sh…

Real talk, which plant grows in the palace wall?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: grow · To what, where: palace wall

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 906 «Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 117: the Moon shows a dead actor, a broken pitcher, a desert caravan and a doll in a tree» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grows	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grows	punct
4	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 plant	det
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grows	nsubj
6	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 wall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wall	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wall	compound
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grows	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 grows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Real talk			the palace wall			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wall=Location

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 olive bush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bush	det
2	olive	olive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bush	amod
3	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The wild grape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grape	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grape	amod
3	grape	grape	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A thorny mimosa growing from the broken marble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mimosa	det
2	thorny	thorny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mimosa	amod
3	mimosa	mimosa	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 mimosa	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 marble	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 marble	det
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 marble	amod
8	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	gerund	a thorny mimosa not said here					from the broken marble	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from marble=Patient
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The wild fig tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tree	amod
3	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
4	tree	tree	NOUN	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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