Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Thistle's Experiences, part 20…

Was the thistle's flower fit or munted by the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: end · What happens: be, munt · To what, where: flower fit

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 998 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Thistle's Experiences, part 209: a prince leaves a proud princess, and a thistle dreams of glory» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fit	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thistle	det
3	thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fit	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 thistle	case
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fit	compound
6	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 munted	nsubj:pass
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 munted	cc
8	munted	munt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 munted	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 munted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the thistle's flower fit					tree rules
2	munt	participle · passive	the end	the thistle's flower fit					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 · ← Mova's choice

Munted, bro, all dry and brown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Munted	Munted	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Munted	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dry	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 dry	det
6	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Munted	parataxis
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 brown	cc
8	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dry	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Munted, mate, all silvery and ghosty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Munted	Munted	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Munted	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 silvery	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 silvery	advmod
6	silvery	silvery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Munted	parataxis
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ghosty	cc
8	ghosty	ghosty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 silvery	conj

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

Option 3

Fit as, mate, all green and bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	as	as	ADV	_	1 Fit	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fit	vocative
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 green	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 green	det
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fit	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bright	cc
9	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 green	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	imperative	you not said here					mate vocative	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Munted, mate, all shrivelled up and gone brown and dead, like the poor old bee

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Munted	Munted	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Munted	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shrivelled	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 shrivelled	nsubj:pass
6	shrivelled	shrivell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Munted	parataxis
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 shrivelled	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gone	cc
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 shrivelled	conj
10	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gone	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dead	cc
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 brown	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bee	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	18 bee	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bee	det
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bee	amod
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bee	amod
18	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrivell up	participle · passive		all					tree rules
2	go	participle						like the poor old bee; brown property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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