Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 12: the Fir is…

Lol, the Sparrows said the room was lush, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sparrows, room · What happens: say, be, innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sparrows	det
4	Sparrows	Sparrow	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lush	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lush	cop
9	lush	lush	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 lush	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Sparrows		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the room	lush property	tree rules
3	innit	infinitive			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

Yeah, pretty nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nice	punct
3	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	4 nice	advmod
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Nah, the room was rather dull and dusty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 dull	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 room	det
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dull	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dull	cop
6	rather	rather	ADV	_	7 dull	advmod
7	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dusty	cc
9	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dull	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the room					dull property	tree rules
2	be		the room not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the greatest splendor they could imagine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 splendor	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 splendor	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 splendor	det
4	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 splendor	amod
5	splendor	splendor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 imagine	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 imagine	aux
8	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 splendor	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	imagine	could	they	the greatest splendor not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot splendor=Theme

Option 4

Nah, it was cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 cold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cold	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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