Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under…

Mate, which tree kept Knud company in the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: keep · To what, where: Knud company, end

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1018 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under the willow and is found frozen to death» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tree	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 company	compound
7	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Mate and which tree	Knud company			in the end		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent company=Theme in end=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

The willow by the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 willow	det
2	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 road	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 road	det
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 willow	nmod

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

Option 2

A pine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pine	det
2	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

An oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 oak	det
2	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The birch near the church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birch	det
2	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 church	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 church	det
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 birch	nmod

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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