Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp: the lamp dreams it…
Proper far away, yeah? Who brought the flower-pots?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: bring · To what, where: flower pots
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 925 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp: the lamp dreams it will be melted down» 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
Sentence 1: Proper far away, yeah?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proper | properly | ADV | _ | 3 away | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 away | advmod |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 away | punct |
| 5 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 away | discourse |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 away | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Who brought the flower-pots?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pots | det |
| 4 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pots | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 flower | punct |
| 6 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 brought | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the flower pots | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pot=Theme |
The options
Option 1
A young sailor named Christian who sailed home in spring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sailor | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sailor | amod |
| 3 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sailed | nsubj |
| 4 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sailor | acl |
| 5 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 named | xcomp |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 sailed | nsubj |
| 7 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 sailed | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 spring | case |
| 10 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sailed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | a young sailor not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sail | past | a young sailor | spring | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
A dockworker named Hans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dockworker | det |
| 2 | dockworker | dockworker | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dockworker | acl |
| 4 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 named | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | a dockworker not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A sailor named Christian
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sailor | det |
| 2 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sailor | acl |
| 4 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 named | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | a sailor not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
A sailor named Christian who came from Holland
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sailor | det |
| 2 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 3 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sailor | acl |
| 4 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 named | xcomp |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Holland | case |
| 8 | Holland | Holland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | a sailor not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | a sailor | Holland | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from holland=Initial_Location |
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