Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Pea Blossom: a pea grows by the sick…

ngl the violin sounded like birds tweeting, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, violin, birds · What happens: ngl, sound, tweet

This is test 9 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 violin	det
3	violin	violin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sounded	nsubj
4	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 ngl	ccomp
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 birds	case
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sounded	obl
7	tweeting	tweet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 birds	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tweeting	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	1 ngl	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	ngl	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	sound	past	the violin	like birds	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	tweet	gerund	birds not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, and like wind through fir-trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 wind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wind	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wind	cc
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 wind	case
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	9 trees	case
7	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trees	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fir	punct
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wind	nmod

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

Option 2

nah, it sounded like a big iron bell ringing at midnight in a deserted church by the sea

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sounded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sounded	nsubj
4	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	9 bell	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bell	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bell	amod
8	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bell	compound
9	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sounded	obl
10	ringing	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 bell	acl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 midnight	case
12	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ringing	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 church	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 church	det
15	deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 church	amod
16	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ringing	obl
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 sea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ringing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	past	it			like a big iron bell	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	ring	gerund	a big iron bell not said here	a deserted church	midnight	by the sea	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in church=Location
3	desert	participle					vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, and like wind through fir-trees, and also like a crowd of children shouting outside

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 wind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wind	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wind	cc
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 wind	case
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	9 trees	case
7	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trees	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fir	punct
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wind	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 crowd	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 crowd	cc
12	also	also	ADV	_	15 crowd	advmod
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 crowd	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 crowd	det
15	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wind	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 children	case
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 crowd	nmod
18	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 children	acl
19	outside	outside	ADV	_	18 shouting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund	children not said here					outside property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

nah, like a loud drum in a tin box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 drum	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 drum	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 drum	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 drum	det
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 drum	amod
6	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 box	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 box	det
9	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 box	compound
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drum	nmod

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

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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