Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree, part 18: the tree is dressed fo…
Where did they chuck the tree the next morning?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: chuck · To what, where: tree
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1629 «Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree, part 18: the tree is dressed for Christmas, hears a story, and is then shut away in a dark loft» 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 chuck | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chuck | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chuck | nsubj |
| 4 | chuck | chuck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chuck | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 morning | det |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 morning | amod |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chuck | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 chuck | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuck | past · do-support | they | the tree | morning | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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
"Up the stairs in the attic, bruv."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stairs | punct |
| 2 | Up | up | ADP | _ | 4 stairs | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stairs | det |
| 4 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 attic | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 attic | det |
| 7 | attic | attic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stairs | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bruv | punct |
| 9 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attic | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stairs | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stairs | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
"Up the stairs in a dark corner, bruv."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stairs | punct |
| 2 | Up | up | ADP | _ | 4 stairs | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stairs | det |
| 4 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 corner | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 corner | det |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 corner | amod |
| 8 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stairs | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bruv | punct |
| 10 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 corner | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stairs | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stairs | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
"Down the hall by the door, mate."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 2 | Down | down | ADP | _ | 4 hall | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hall | det |
| 4 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mate | obl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hall | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hall | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
"Out in the yard, bruv."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 yard | punct |
| 2 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 5 yard | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 yard | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 yard | det |
| 5 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bruv | punct |
| 7 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yard | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 yard | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 yard | punct |
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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