Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 206: a mothe…

wait, so the old lady swapped hair, what kind?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, old lady · What happens: wait, swap · To what, where: hair

This is test 7 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 swapped	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 swapped	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swapped	nsubj
7	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	conj
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swapped	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kind	punct
10	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	11 kind	det
11	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hair	conj
12	?	?	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	swap	past	the old lady	hair and what kind					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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

Black hair for white locks, plus her golden comb and her warm woolen cloak

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hair	amod
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 locks	case
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 locks	amod
5	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hair	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 comb	punct
7	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	10 comb	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 comb	nmod:poss
9	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 comb	amod
10	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hair	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cloak	cc
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 cloak	nmod:poss
13	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cloak	amod
14	woolen	woolen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cloak	amod
15	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hair	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Red hair for white locks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hair	amod
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 locks	case
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 locks	amod
5	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hair	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Black hair for white locks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hair	amod
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 locks	case
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 locks	amod
5	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hair	nmod

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

Option 4

Black hair for white locks, and the mother's three days of waiting in the snow

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hair	amod
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 locks	case
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 locks	amod
5	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hair	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 waiting	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 waiting	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mother	det
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 days	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 mother	case
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 waiting	nsubj
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 waiting	mark
14	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hair	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 snow	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 snow	det
17	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund	the mother's three days			the snow			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in snow=Location

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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