Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 12: the Fir is…

Wait, where'd the stork reckon the trees went, bro?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, stork, trees · What happens: wait, reckon, go

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 reckon	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stork	det
6	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bro	punct
12	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	vocative
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reckon	would	the stork		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	go	past	the trees	bro vocative	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Into the masts of the big ships in a faraway harbour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Into	into	ADP	_	3 masts	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 masts	det
3	masts	mast	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 ships	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ships	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ships	amod
7	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 masts	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 harbour	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 harbour	det
10	faraway	faraway	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 harbour	amod
11	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ships	nmod

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

Option 2

Into boats for sailing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Into	into	ADP	_	2 boats	case
2	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 sailing	case
4	sailing	sailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boats	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Onto ships as masts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Onto	onto	ADP	_	2 ships	case
2	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 masts	case
4	masts	mast	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ships	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Onto the palace floors where kings and queens walk every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Onto	onto	ADP	_	4 floors	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 floors	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 floors	compound
4	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 walk	obl
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 walk	advmod
6	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 walk	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 queens	cc
8	queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kings	conj
9	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walk	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	kings and queens			the palace floors	day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto floor=Trajectory

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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