Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's tales, The Marble Psyche, part 163: a poor scul…

Okay, what was under all the dirt on the block?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: dirt

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 952 «Andersen's tales, The Marble Psyche, part 163: a poor sculptor in Rome falls in love with a noble lady and carves her in marble» 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	8 dirt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 dirt	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dirt	cop
5	under	under	ADP	_	8 dirt	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 dirt	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dirt	det
8	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 block	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 block	det
11	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dirt	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 dirt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				all dirt		on the block	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

Stone as white as mountain snow and as smooth as the finest glass in the palace

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 white	nsubj
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 white	advmod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 snow	case
5	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snow	compound
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 white	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 smooth	cc
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 smooth	advmod
9	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 white	conj
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 glass	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 glass	det
12	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 glass	amod
13	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smooth	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 palace	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 palace	det
16	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 glass	nmod

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

Option 2

A pure white marble that shone like silver under the morning sun in the courtyard

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 marble	det
2	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 marble	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 marble	amod
4	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 shone	nsubj
6	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 marble	acl:relcl
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 silver	case
8	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shone	obl
9	under	under	ADP	_	12 sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sun	compound
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shone	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 courtyard	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 courtyard	det
15	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	past	a pure white marble			the morning sun		like silver; in the courtyard	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sun=Location

Option 3

Grey stone full of cracks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stone	amod
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stone	amod
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 cracks	case
5	cracks	crack	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 full	obl

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Stone as white as mountain snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 white	nsubj
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 white	advmod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 snow	case
5	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snow	compound
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 white	obl

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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