Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man an…

What was the old tailors' flag like, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 921 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man and a little boy become friends across the street» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tailors	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tailors	amod
5	tailors	tailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flag	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 tailors	case
7	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 like	nsubj
8	like	like	ADP	_	1 What	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 What	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past					then		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

Two large lions holding up a pair of scissors together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 lions	nummod
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lions	amod
3	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 lions	acl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 holding	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pair	det
7	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holding	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 scissors	case
9	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pair	nmod
10	together	together	ADV	_	4 holding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	gerund	Two large lions not said here	a pair of scissors				together property	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pair=Theme

Option 2

A red flag showing scissors held up by two golden lions and a crown on top

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 flag	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flag	amod
3	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 flag	acl
5	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 showing	obj
6	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 scissors	acl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 held	compound:prt
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 lions	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 lions	nummod
10	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lions	amod
11	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 held	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 crown	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 crown	det
14	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scissors	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 top	case
16	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 showing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	gerund	a red flag not said here	scissors and a crown		top			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent scissors=Recipient
2	hold up	participle		scissors and a crown not said here				by two golden lions	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Scissors held up by two lions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Scissors	acl
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 held	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 lions	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 lions	nummod
6	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	participle		Scissors not said here				by two lions	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

Thread wound around a bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thread	thread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thread	obj
3	around	around	ADP	_	5 bear	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bear	det
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thread	imperative	you not said here	wound		a bear			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient

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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