Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 12: the Fir is…

Yo, what did the sparrows say about the warm room?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sparrows · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sparrows	det
6	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 room	amod
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the sparrows					about the warm room	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

It was incomparably beautiful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beautiful	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beautiful	cop
3	incomparably	incomparably	ADV	_	4 beautiful	advmod
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					beautiful, incomparably property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It was the most gorgeous place ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 place	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 place	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 gorgeous	advmod
5	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 place	amod
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 place	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the gorgeous place			ever		tree rules

Option 3

It looked splendid and grand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 grand	cc
5	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 splendid	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	It					splendid property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

It seemed dull and very drab

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seemed	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 drab	cc
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 drab	advmod
6	drab	drab	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dull	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It					dull property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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