Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 170:…

bro, what's the pool like by the old tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be · To what, where: pool

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 959 «Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 170: the old willow, the flute and the proud party» 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 pool	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 pool	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pool	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pool	det
6	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bro	appos
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 tree	case
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tree	amod
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pool	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bro	the pool				like the old tree	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 · ← Mova's choice

clear water and sunny grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 grass	cc
4	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grass	amod
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	conj

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

Option 2

still water, green with weed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	still	still	ADV	_	4 green	advmod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 green	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 green	punct
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 weed	case
6	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 green	obl

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

Option 3

dark water with the willow reflected, cold and very deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reflected	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 willow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 willow	det
5	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	nmod
6	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cold	punct
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reflected	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 deep	cc
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 deep	advmod
11	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reflect	past	dark water with the willow	cold					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

dark water with the willow reflected

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 willow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 willow	det
5	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	nmod
6	reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 water	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reflect	participle		dark water with the willow not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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