Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their…
What's the emperor's palace made of, like the most fragile stuff ever?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, make · To what, where: palace
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 911 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their old neighbours at Thorwaldsen's grave» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 palace | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 palace | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 emperor | det |
| 4 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 palace | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 emperor | case |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 palace | acl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stuff | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 stuff | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stuff | det |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 fragile | advmod |
| 13 | fragile | fragile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stuff | amod |
| 14 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 palace | conj |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 stuff | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 palace | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the emperor's palace and the fragile stuff | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | participle | the emperor's palace and the fragile stuff not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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
porcelain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | porcelain | porcelain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
ceramic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ceramic | ceramic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
crystal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
thin porcelain covered in gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 porcelain | amod |
| 2 | porcelain | porcelain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 porcelain | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 covered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | thin porcelain not said here | in gold | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in gold=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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