Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree: the old tree is burn…

So what did the tree tell the mice about Christmas Eve?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: tree · What happens: tell · To what, where: mice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 tell	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 tell	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mice	det
8	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 Eve	case
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Eve	compound
11	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mice	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the tree		the mice				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient mouse=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

That it was decked with sweet-meats and tapers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 decked	nsubj:pass
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 decked	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 decked	aux:pass
4	decked	deck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 meats	case
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meats	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sweet	punct
8	meats	meat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 decked	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tapers	cc
10	tapers	taper	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 meats	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deck	past · passive		That				with sweet meats and tapers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with meat=Theme

Option 2

That it was dressed with cakes and candles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 dressed	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dressed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dressed	aux:pass
4	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 cakes	case
6	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dressed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 candles	cc
8	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cakes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	past · passive		That				with cakes and candles	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

That it was hung with sweets and lanterns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 hung	nsubj:pass
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hung	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hung	aux:pass
4	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 sweets	case
6	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hung	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lanterns	cc
8	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sweets	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past · passive		That				with sweets and lanterns	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with sweet=Instrument

Option 4

That it had candles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 had	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	That	candles					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Patient

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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