Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 12: the Fir is…

Was the tree proper sad leaving his home, like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: tree · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: home

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sad	nsubj
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sad	amod
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sad	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 home	nmod:poss
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaving	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	6 leaving	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tree					sad property	tree rules
2	leave	gerund	the tree not said here	his home					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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

Yeah, he felt sick, like a dizzy spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 felt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spell	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 spell	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 spell	det
9	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spell	amod
10	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	he					like a dizzy spell; sick property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like spell=Theme

Option 2

Nah, he was happy to go away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 happy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 happy	xcomp
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					happy property	tree rules
2	go away	to-infinitive	he not said here					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he felt a pang, like a swoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 felt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pang	det
6	pang	pang	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swoon	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 swoon	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 swoon	det
10	swoon	swoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	he	a pang				like a swoon	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pang=Theme

Option 4

Nah, he felt fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 felt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp

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

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/285-pg1597-part12/t5/