Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man an…

Proper random, but what was growing out of the balcony?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: grow out · To what, where: balcony

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 random	amod
2	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 growing	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 growing	cc
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 growing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 growing	aux
7	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 random	parataxis
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 balcony	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 balcony	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 balcony	det
11	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 growing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 random	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow out	past · progressive		the balcony					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location balcony=Theme

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

Long grass and wild leaves growing out of all the cracks in the stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grass	amod
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 leaves	cc
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 leaves	amod
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grass	conj
6	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 grass	acl
7	out	out	ADP	_	11 cracks	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 cracks	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 cracks	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cracks	det
11	cracks	crack	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 growing	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 stone	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stone	det
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow out	gerund	Long grass and wild leaves not said here	all cracks		the stone			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crack=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Tiny flowers in the holes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flowers	amod
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 holes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 holes	det
5	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flowers	nmod

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

Option 3

Ivy in the old gaps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivy	Ivy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 gaps	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gaps	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gaps	amod
5	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ivy	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Grass and leaves in the cracks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaves	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	1 Grass	cc
3	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cracks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cracks	det
6	cracks	crack	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leaves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	Grass					in the cracks result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in crack=Result

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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