Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Pea Blossom: a pea grows by the sick…

so the pigeons ate like three peas, that's kinda rough, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pigeons, that · What happens: eat, be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 937 «Andersen's Tales, The Pea Blossom: a pea grows by the sick girl's window and gives her hope» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pigeons	det
3	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 peas	case
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 peas	nummod
7	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ate	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rough	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 rough	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 rough	cop
11	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	12 rough	advmod
12	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ate	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rough	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the pigeons					like three peas	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	that					kinda, rough property	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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, two lazy ones and the one who flew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ones	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 ones	nummod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 one	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ones	conj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 flew	nsubj
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 one	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the one						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, the pigeons ate three peas, and the poor little one who flew away was the saddest

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pigeons	det
4	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 one	advcl
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 peas	nummod
7	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 one	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 one	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saddest	nsubj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 flew	nsubj
15	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 one	acl:relcl
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 flew	advmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saddest	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 saddest	det
19	saddest	sad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the pigeons	three peas		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Patient
2	fly away	past	the poor little one		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the poor little one		sad property	tree rules

Option 3

nah, the pigeons ate none of them, because the peas all flew off into the wide world

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pigeons	det
4	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	5 ate	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 none	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flew	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 flew	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 peas	det
12	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 flew	nsubj
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 flew	advmod
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ate	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 flew	compound:prt
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 world	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
18	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 world	amod
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the pigeons	none					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient
2	fly off	past	the peas					into the wide world result; all property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into world=Result

Option 4

nah, the birds ate only two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birds	det
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 two	advmod
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the birds	two					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=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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