Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His Daughters, part 239…
wait, why was the stork tree left standing?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, stork tree · What happens: wait, be, leave, stand
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1028 «Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His Daughters, part 239: the forest is felled, the ship is never sold, and the gold-making ends in smoke» 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 1 wait | parataxis |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 6 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | compound |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | nsubj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | ccomp |
| 9 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 left | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | leave | past | the stork tree | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | the stork tree not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
cos Anna Dorothea begged for it with tears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | cos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Anna | compound |
| 2 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | Dorothea | Dorothea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Anna | flat |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 begged | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 tears | case |
| 8 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 begged | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | cos Anna | for it; with tears | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for it=Topic |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
cos it was too tall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | cos | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tall | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tall | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 tall | advmod |
| 5 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 cos | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | it | tall property | tree rules |
Option 3
cos the old man felt sorry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | co | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 felt | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the old man | feel, sorry property | tree rules |
Option 4
cos the Wind said so
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | cos | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wind | det |
| 3 | Wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 cos | ccomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Wind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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