Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Thistle's Experiences, part 20…

What did the thistle call the bees, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thistle · What happens: do, call · To what, where: bees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thistle	det
4	thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 call	nsubj
5	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bees	det
7	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 call	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	5 call	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	present	the thistle		the bees				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bee=Recipient

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

Cheeky pests, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pests	amod
2	pests	pest	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bruv	punct
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pests	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Rude bees, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bees	amod
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bees	conj

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

Option 3

Noisy lot of buzzers, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lot	amod
2	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 buzzers	case
4	buzzers	buzzer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lot	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buzzers	appos

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Thievish rabble, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thievish	thievish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rabble	amod
2	rabble	rabble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rabble	conj

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

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