Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mot…
Was the rose-bush, like, totally sick and untouched after the fire?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: rose bush
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bush | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bush | det |
| 3 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bush | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
| 5 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 7 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 5 bush | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sick | punct |
| 9 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 10 sick | advmod |
| 10 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bush | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 untouched | cc |
| 12 | untouched | untouched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sick | conj |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 fire | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fire | det |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sick | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bush | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the rose bush | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, it stood there fresh and blooming
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 stood | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stood | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 blooming | cc |
| 8 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 fresh | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | it | there | fresh property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | bloom | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, it got burnt up with the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 burnt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 burnt | aux:pass |
| 5 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 burnt | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burnt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt up | past · passive | it | with the house | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, it stood there fresh and blooming, all the roses still nodding over the ruin, innit
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 stood | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stood | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 blooming | cc |
| 8 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 fresh | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nodding | punct |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 roses | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 roses | det |
| 12 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 nodding | nsubj |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 nodding | advmod |
| 14 | nodding | nod | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stood | advcl |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 ruin | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ruin | det |
| 17 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nodding | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 innit | punct |
| 19 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ruin | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | it | there | fresh property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | bloom | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | nod | gerund | all roses | the ruin and innit | still | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yeah, it stood there fresh and blooming while everything around it was burnt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 stood | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stood | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 blooming | cc |
| 8 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stood | advcl |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 burnt | mark |
| 10 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 everything | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 burnt | aux:pass |
| 14 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 blooming | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | it | there | fresh property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | bloom | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | burnt | past · passive | everything | tree rules |
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