Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mot…

Yo, which house got burnt, the mum's or the couple's?

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

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 910 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mother is pecked to death, and her children burn their own nest» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 burnt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burnt	nsubj:pass
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 burnt	aux:pass
6	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 burnt	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mum	det
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 couple	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 mum	case
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 couple	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 couple	det
13	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burnt	advcl
14	's	's	PART	_	13 couple	case
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 burnt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	past · passive		which house					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 house where the sparrow-mother was born

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 born	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mother	det
5	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mother	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 sparrow	punct
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 born	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 born	aux:pass
9	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 house	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		the sparrow mother					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

The house of the soap-man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 man	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
5	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 soap	punct
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 house	nmod

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

Option 3

The couple's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 couple	det
2	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 couple	case

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The farmhouse where the young couple lived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmhouse	det
2	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	nsubj
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 lived	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 couple	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 couple	amod
6	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the farmhouse						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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