Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird…

Bro, what tree was growing in the courtyard?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: grow · To what, where: Bro, courtyard

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 943 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird dies, and a porter's boy saves a nursery from fire» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 growing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 growing	obj
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 growing	compound
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 growing	aux
6	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Bro	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 courtyard	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 courtyard	det
9	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 growing	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · progressive		Bro		the courtyard			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=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 · ← Mova's choice

a big old chestnut in the yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chestnut	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chestnut	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chestnut	amod
4	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 yard	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 yard	det
7	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chestnut	nmod

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

Option 2

a willow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 willow	det
2	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a tall weeping willow tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tree	amod
3	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 willow	compound
4	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	compound
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

an acacia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 acacia	det
2	acacia	acacia	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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