Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 12: the Fir is…

So the wood-cutters just chop the big trees every autumn, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wood cutters · What happens: chop · To what, where: big trees

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 285 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 12: the Fir is cut down, decorated, and stripped bare by the children» 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	_	7 chop	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cutters	det
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cutters	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 wood	punct
5	cutters	cutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chop	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 chop	advmod
7	chop	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trees	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trees	amod
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chop	obj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 autumn	det
12	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chop	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chop	punct
14	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 chop	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 chop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	present	the wood cutters	the big trees			autumn		vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they fell some of the largest ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 fell	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 ones	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ones	det
8	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 ones	amod
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 some	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	they	some					vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient some=Result

Option 2

Yeah, they do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	they						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, they cut down the thin ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 cut	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ones	det
7	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut down	past	they	the thin ones					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product

Option 4

Nah, they plant the small ones instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 plant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 plant	nsubj
4	plant	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ones	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 plant	obj
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 plant	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	present	they	the small ones				instead property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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