Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Homer's Grave: a rose…

Bro, what does the rose say she sprang from?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, say, spring · To what, where: rose · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rose	det
6	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sprang	nsubj
9	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
10	from	from	ADP	_	9 sprang	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present	Bro	the rose	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Bro		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	spring	past	Bro		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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

The rich black soil of the grave of the blind poet Homer by the sea

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soil	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soil	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soil	amod
4	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 grave	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grave	det
7	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soil	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 Homer	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Homer	det
10	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Homer	amod
11	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Homer	compound
12	Homer	homer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grave	nmod
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Homer	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soil			the grave of the blind poet Homer by the sea					nom soil «state transitive»: of=patient
2	homer		the sea						nom homer «act intransitive»: by=agent

Option 2

The cold, wet earth of a grave where a nightingale was buried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 earth	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 earth	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cold	punct
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 earth	amod
5	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 grave	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 grave	det
8	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 earth	nmod
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 buried	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 nightingale	det
11	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buried	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 buried	aux:pass
13	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 grave	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past · passive		a nightingale					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The sands of Smyrna's shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sands	det
2	sands	sand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 shore	case
4	Smyrna	Smyrna	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shore	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Smyrna	case
6	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sands	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The earth of Homer's grave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 earth	det
2	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 grave	case
4	Homer	Homer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grave	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Homer	case
6	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 earth	nmod

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

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