Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Homer's Grave: a rose…
Fam, what is the rose too proud for?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fam · What happens: be · To what, where: rose
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 960 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Homer's Grave: a rose is carried north in a book» 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 | Fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rose | det |
| 6 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fam | appos |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 proud | advmod |
| 8 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rose | amod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 proud | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fam | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Fam | the rose | 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
Blooming for any nightingale that sings beneath her window at dusk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 nightingale | case |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 nightingale | det |
| 4 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Blooming | obl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 sings | nsubj |
| 6 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nightingale | acl:relcl |
| 7 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 9 window | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 window | nmod:poss |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sings | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 dusk | case |
| 11 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sings | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom | gerund | for any nightingale | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | any nightingale | her window | dusk | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath window=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Blooming for a nightingale
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 nightingale | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 nightingale | det |
| 4 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Blooming | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom | gerund | for a nightingale | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Growing near a grave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | near | near | ADP | _ | 4 grave | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 grave | det |
| 4 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Growing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | gerund | a grave | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near grave=Location |
Option 4
Blooming for the sun's warmth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 warmth | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 warmth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 sun | case |
| 6 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Blooming | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom | gerund | for the sun's warmth | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/960-pg27200-part171/t12/