Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 12: the Fir is…

What's the story-teller's gig, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gig · What happens: be

This is test 14 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 teller	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 teller	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 story	punct
6	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gig	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 teller	case
8	gig	gig	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gig	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the story teller's gig and mate						tree rules

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

A little fat man who was once a cook in the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
3	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cook	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 cook	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cook	cop
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 cook	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cook	det
9	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cook	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a little fat man	a cook		the palace		once property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A little fat man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
3	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A plump gentleman who told the children funny tales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gentleman	det
2	plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gentleman	amod
3	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gentleman	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	iobj
8	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tales	amod
9	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	a plump gentleman	funny tales	the children				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient tale=Topic

Option 4

An old sailor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sailor	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sailor	amod
3	sailor	sailor	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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