Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp: the lamp dreams it…

What shape were those flower-pots, like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shape · What happens: be · To what, where: flower pots

This is test 9 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 shape	det
2	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pots	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pots	cop
4	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 pots	det
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pots	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 flower	punct
7	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	7 pots	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 pots	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	what shape	that flower pots					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

Tall pots with carved handles like elephants' heads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pots	amod
2	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 handles	case
4	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 handles	amod
5	handles	handle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pots	nmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 heads	case
7	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heads	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 elephants	case
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 handles	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Elephants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Round pots with tiny flowers painted on them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pots	amod
2	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 flowers	case
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flowers	amod
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pots	nmod
6	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 flowers	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle		tiny flowers not said here				on flowers = flower	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination

Option 4

Camels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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