Test 10 · ★★ · Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shi…
In the book, the gardeners painting the roses are cards from one suit. Which one?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gardeners · What happens: paint, be · To what, where: roses, cards, book
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 81 «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps» of the history 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: In the book, the gardeners painting the roses are cards from one suit.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 book | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 book | det |
| 3 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cards | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 book | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gardeners | det |
| 6 | gardeners | gardener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cards | nsubj |
| 7 | painting | paint | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 gardeners | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roses | det |
| 9 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 painting | obj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cards | cop |
| 11 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 suit | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 suit | nummod |
| 14 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cards | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cards | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | gerund | the gardeners not said here | the roses | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent rose=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the gardeners | cards | the book | from one suit | 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.
Sentence 2: Which one?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Diamonds, which are the courtiers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 courtiers | punct |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 courtiers | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 courtiers | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 courtiers | det |
| 6 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Diamonds | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Diamonds and the courtiers | the courtiers | tree rules |
Option 2
Clubs, which are the soldiers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 soldiers | punct |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 soldiers | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 soldiers | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 soldiers | det |
| 6 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Clubs | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Clubs and the soldiers | the soldiers | tree rules |
Option 3
Hearts, which are the royal children
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 children | punct |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 children | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 children | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 children | det |
| 6 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 children | amod |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hearts | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Hearts and the royal children | the royal children | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Spades, which look like garden spades
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spades | spade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 look | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 look | nsubj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 spades | case |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spades | compound |
| 7 | spades | spade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 look | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Spades | like garden spades | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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