Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Old Anthony, part 127: Anthony lies awak…

Lowkey, what's the old tree thing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: be · To what, where: old tree thing

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 916 «Andersen's Tales, Old Anthony, part 127: Anthony lies awake in his cold booth and remembers his childhood with Molly» 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 thing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 thing	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	compound
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lowkey	the old tree thing					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 willow by the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 willow	det
2	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 willow	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the old oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a pear tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tree	det
2	pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tree	compound
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the apple-tree from the pip

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	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 apple	punct
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 pip	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pip	det
7	pip	pip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	nmod

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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