Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 206: a mothe…

bro the hothouse plants have hearts that actually beat??

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hothouse plants · What happens: have, beat · To what, where: hearts

This is test 8 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	vocative
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plants	det
3	hothouse	hothouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plants	compound
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 beat	obj
8	actually	actually	ADV	_	9 beat	advmod
9	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hearts	acl:relcl
10	??	??	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the hothouse plants	hearts				bro vocative	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
2	beat	present		hearts				actually property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=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 · ← Mova's choice

No, they're only plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 plants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 plants	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plants	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 plants	advmod
6	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	plants					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, that's what she said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, that's what she said, and each beat keeps time with a child's heart

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 said	obj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 keeps	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 keeps	cc
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 beat	det
11	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keeps	nsubj
12	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keeps	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	18 heart	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 child	det
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heart	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 child	case
18	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep	present	each beat	time	with a child's heart	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, that's what she said, but the mother could not hear them at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 said	obj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hear	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 hear	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hear	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hear	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 hear	advmod
14	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hear	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	that			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not hear	could	the mother	them = they	all	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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