Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree: the old tree is burn…

Mate, who nicked the golden star off the tree?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: nick · To what, where: golden star, tree

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nicked	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 nicked	nsubj
4	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 star	det
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 star	amod
7	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 nicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	Mate	the golden star		the tree			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent star=Theme off tree=Source

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

The youngest of the children, who was standing on a chair by the lamp

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youngest	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 children	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 youngest	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 standing	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 standing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 standing	aux
9	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 children	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 chair	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 chair	det
12	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 standing	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 lamp	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lamp	det
15	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 standing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	the children			a chair		by the lamp	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location

Option 2

One of the older boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 boys	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boys	det
4	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 boys	amod
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

One of the little ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 ones	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ones	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The smith's eldest girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smith	det
2	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 girl	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 smith	case
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 girl	amod
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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