Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 206: a mothe…

fr, what's something that grows in the hothouse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: be, grow · To what, where: something, hothouse

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 995 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 206: a mother follows Death and pays a price» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 something	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 something	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 something	cop
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 fr	appos
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 grows	nsubj
7	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 something	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hothouse	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hothouse	det
10	hothouse	hothouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grows	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	fr	something					tree rules
2	grow	present				the hothouse			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hothouse=Location

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

Hyacinths under glass bells, each one tended by the old woman at dawn and dusk

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hyacinths	hyacinth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nsubj
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 bells	case
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bells	compound
4	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hyacinths	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	tended	tend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 one	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 woman	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tended	obl:agent
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 dawn	case
14	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tended	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dusk	cc
16	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dawn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tend	participle		each one not said here			dawn		vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Red roses in the window box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 roses	amod
2	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 box	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 box	det
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 box	compound
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 roses	nmod

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

Option 3

Hyacinths under glass bells, all wrapped in straw against the cold winter nights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hyacinths	hyacinth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 bells	case
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bells	compound
4	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hyacinths	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wrapped	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 wrapped	nsubj:pass
7	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Hyacinths	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 straw	case
9	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrapped	obl
10	against	against	ADP	_	14 nights	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 nights	det
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 nights	amod
13	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nights	compound
14	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wrapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	participle · passive	Hyacinths under glass bells not said here	all		straw	night		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in straw=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Hyacinths under glass bells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hyacinths	hyacinth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 bells	case
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bells	compound
4	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hyacinths	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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