Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 12: the Fir is…

Which story did the fat man pick in the end, bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: story · What happens: pick · To what, where: end

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pick	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pick	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pick	nsubj
7	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pick	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bro	punct
12	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past · do-support	which story				in the end and bro		vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 story of the little fat man who fell down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 man	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
6	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 story	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	acl:relcl
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	the little fat man					down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Humpy-Dumpy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Humpy	humpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Dumpy	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Humpy	punct
3	Dumpy	dumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Jack Frost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Frost	Frost	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Jack	flat

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

Option 4

Cinderella

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cinderella	cinderella	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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