Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda finds Kay in…

Bruh, what did the fir-tree really want?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fir tree · What happens: want

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1628 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda finds Kay in the ice palace and they walk home to summer» 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	10 want	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 want	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 want	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
6	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 fir	punct
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 want	nsubj
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 want	advmod
10	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the fir tree						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To be a tall tree like the rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	5 tree	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 tree	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tree	amod
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 rest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rest	det
8	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	to-infinitive		a tall tree				like the rest	tree rules

Option 2

To grow tall and great like the other trees and be seen by all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 grow	mark
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grow	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 great	cc
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tall	conj
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 trees	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trees	amod
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 great	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seen	cc
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 seen	aux:pass
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 grow	conj
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	to-infinitive						tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive · passive						by all	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To grow tall like the others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 grow	mark
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grow	xcomp
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 others	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 others	det
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	to-infinitive						tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

To grow tall like the others and be cut for a palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 grow	mark
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grow	xcomp
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 others	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 others	det
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tall	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cut	cc
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 cut	aux:pass
9	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 grow	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 palace	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	to-infinitive						tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut	infinitive · passive						for a palace	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: for palace=Asset

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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