Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree: the old tree is burn…
Innit true Humpty Dumpty fell downstairs and still got a princess?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, true Humpty Dumpty · What happens: innit, fall, get · To what, where: princess
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Dumpty | amod |
| 3 | Humpty | Humpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Dumpty | compound |
| 4 | Dumpty | Dumpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Innit | ccomp |
| 6 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 5 fell | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 got | cc |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 got | advmod |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | innit | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | true Humpty Dumpty | downstairs property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | past | true Humpty Dumpty not said here | a princess | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
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
Nah, that's the tale the mice know
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 tale | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 tale | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tale | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tale | det |
| 6 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mice | det |
| 8 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tale | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the tale | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | the mice | the tale not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, that's the story the tree knows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 story | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 story | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 story | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knows | nsubj |
| 9 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | the tree | the story not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, that's the story the rats tell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 story | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 story | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 story | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rats | det |
| 8 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | the rats | the story not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
Option 4
Yeah, that's the story the tree knows best, and it always ends with the princess
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 story | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 story | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 story | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knows | nsubj |
| 9 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | parataxis |
| 10 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 knows | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ends | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ends | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ends | nsubj |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 ends | advmod |
| 15 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 princess | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ends | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | the tree | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | end | present | tree | with the princess; always property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with princess=Subeventuality |
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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