Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree, part 18: the tree is dressed fo…
Wait, did the kids nearly knock the whole tree over?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, kids · What happens: wait, do, knock over · To what, where: whole tree
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kids | det |
| 5 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 knock | nsubj |
| 6 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 7 knock | advmod |
| 7 | knock | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knock | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 knock | compound:prt |
| 12 | ? | ? | 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 | do | past | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | knock over | present | the kids | the whole tree | nearly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
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
"Yeah, they grabbed the sweets, mental."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 grabbed | punct |
| 2 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 grabbed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grabbed | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grabbed | nsubj |
| 5 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sweets | det |
| 7 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grabbed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mental | punct |
| 9 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sweets | amod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grabbed | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 grabbed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab in a quote | past | they | the sweets | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
"Nah, they just cried, bruv."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 2 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 cried | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nah | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 cried | advmod |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bruv | punct |
| 8 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | they | bruv | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
"Yeah, they rushed it so the boughs creaked, mental."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 rushed | punct |
| 2 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 rushed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rushed | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rushed | nsubj |
| 5 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rushed | obj |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 10 creaked | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boughs | det |
| 9 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 creaked | nsubj |
| 10 | creaked | creak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rushed | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mental | punct |
| 12 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 creaked | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rushed | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 rushed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush in a quote | past | they | it | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | creak in a quote | past | the boughs | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
"Yeah, proper mental."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mental | punct |
| 2 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 mental | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mental | punct |
| 4 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mental | amod |
| 5 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mental | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mental | 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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