Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Moon: the Moon watches a prisoner le…

Mate, why didn't the roses know they were pretty?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: roses · What happens: not know, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 909 «Andersen's Tales, The Moon: the Moon watches a prisoner leave his cell, then a little girl says her prayers» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 know	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 know	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 know	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 roses	det
7	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 know	nsubj
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	appos
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pretty	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pretty	cop
11	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	8 know	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	the roses						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	roses = rose					pretty property	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 right answer

nobody told them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	nobody		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 2

the gardener never once looked at them closely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 once	advmod
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 looked	advmod
5	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gardener	acl:relcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	obl
8	closely	closely	ADV	_	5 looked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	participle		the gardener not said here				at them = they; closely, once property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme

Option 3

nobody taught them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 taught	nsubj
2	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 taught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	nobody		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 4

they had no mirror

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 mirror	det
4	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	no mirror					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=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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