Test 6 · ★ · Chickens, goats and little creatures
A girl's grandad grows roses covered with greenfly. Which visitor would help the roses most?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandad, visitor · What happens: grow, cover, help · To what, where: roses
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 68 «Chickens, goats and little creatures» of the everyday 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
Sentence 1: A girl's grandad grows roses covered with greenfly.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grandad | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 girl | case |
| 4 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grows | nsubj |
| 5 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grows | obj |
| 7 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 roses | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 greenfly | case |
| 9 | greenfly | greenfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | a girl's grandad | roses | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rose=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | roses not said here | with greenfly | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with greenfly=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.
Sentence 2: Which visitor would help the roses most?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 visitor | det |
| 2 | visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 help | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 roses | det |
| 6 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 help | obj |
| 7 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 help | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | would | which visitor | the roses | most property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Beneficiary |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Ladybirds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ladybirds | ladybird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Goats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Hairy caterpillars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 caterpillars | amod |
| 2 | caterpillars | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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