Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 170:…

wait, what did the sister pick by the road?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sister · What happens: wait, pick

This is test 6 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pick	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 pick	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pick	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sister	det
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pick	nsubj
7	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	parataxis
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pick	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pick	past · do-support	the sister					by the road	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

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

wild herbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 herbs	amod
2	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

field-flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flowers	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 field	punct
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

a bunch of clover

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bunch	det
2	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 clover	case
4	clover	clover	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bunch	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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