Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Old Anthony, part 127: Anthony lies awak…

Wait, what's the flower-pot thing with the apple?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: pot thing

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 thing	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
6	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pot	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 flower	punct
8	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	compound
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 apple	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 apple	det
12	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the pot thing				with the apple	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 apple tree the two kids grew from a pip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
2	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tree	compound
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kids	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 kids	nummod
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grew	nsubj
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 pip	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pip	det
10	pip	pip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the apple tree					from a pip	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from pip=Patient

Option 2

a pip the children planted that sprouted two green leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pip	det
2	pip	pip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 planted	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 planted	nsubj
5	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 sprouted	mark
7	sprouted	sprout	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 planted	ccomp
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 leaves	nummod
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 leaves	amod
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sprouted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	past	a pip						tree rules
2	sprout	past	a pip not said here	two green leaves					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Source

Option 3

a bulb that bloomed red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bulb	det
2	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 bloomed	nsubj
4	bloomed	bloom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bulb	acl:relcl
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bloomed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bloom	past	a bulb					red property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a pip that grew leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pip	det
2	pip	pip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pip	acl:relcl
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	a pip	leaves					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=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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