Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree: the old tree is burn…
Wait, why did the kids go Piff puff bang, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, kids · What happens: wait, go · To what, where: Piff puff bang
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1630 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree: the old tree is burned, and a new tale begins» 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 | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 go | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kids | det |
| 6 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 go | nsubj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 8 | Piff | Piff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bang | compound |
| 9 | puff | puff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bang | compound |
| 10 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 12 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 1 Wait | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | 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 | go | past · do-support | the kids | Piff puff bang | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bang=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
Cos each sigh of the tree sounded just like a pistol shot going off in the room
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 sigh | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 sigh | det |
| 3 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sounded | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sigh | nmod |
| 7 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 shot | advmod |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 shot | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shot | det |
| 11 | pistol | pistol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shot | compound |
| 12 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sounded | obj |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 shot | acl |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 going | compound:prt |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 room | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 room | det |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 going | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | a pistol shot | cos each sigh of the tree | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go off | gerund | a pistol shot not said here | the room | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in room=Location | ||||
| 3 | sigh | the tree | nom sigh «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2
Cos each sigh sounded like a gun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 sigh | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 sigh | det |
| 3 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | sounded | sound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sigh | acl |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 gun | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gun | det |
| 7 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sounded | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | participle | each sigh not said here | like a gun | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
Cos every sigh the tree gave out sounded exactly like a loud pistol shot from the yard
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 sigh | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 sigh | det |
| 3 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sounded | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sigh | acl:relcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 gave | compound:prt |
| 8 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 14 shot | advmod |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 shot | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shot | det |
| 12 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shot | amod |
| 13 | pistol | pistol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shot | compound |
| 14 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sounded | obl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 yard | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 yard | det |
| 17 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shot | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give out | past | the tree | every sigh not said here | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sound | past | cos every sigh; like a loud pistol shot from the yard | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Cos each sigh sounded like a shot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 sigh | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 sigh | det |
| 3 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | sounded | sound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sigh | acl |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 shot | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shot | det |
| 7 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sounded | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | participle | each sigh not said here | like a shot | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1630-pg5615-part19/t10/