Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1…

Ngl, what smelt so strong in the forest?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: smelt

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 smelt	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 smelt	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 smelt	nsubj
4	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 strong	advmod
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smelt	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strong	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 smelt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smelt	past	Ngl					strong property	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

the sharp pine and birch trees of the northern forest in spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pine	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pine	amod
3	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 trees	cc
5	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trees	compound
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pine	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
9	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 forest	amod
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trees	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 spring	case
12	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forest	nmod

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

Option 2

the pine resin and the birch bark drying in the warm afternoon sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 resin	det
2	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 resin	compound
3	resin	resin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bark	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bark	det
6	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bark	compound
7	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 resin	conj
8	drying	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 resin	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
11	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sun	amod
12	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sun	compound
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	gerund	the pine resin and the birch bark not said here			the warm afternoon sun			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

the wet ferns and bracken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ferns	det
2	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ferns	amod
3	ferns	fern	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bracken	cc
5	bracken	bracken	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ferns	conj

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

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

the pine and birch trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pine	det
2	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 trees	cc
4	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trees	compound
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pine	conj

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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