Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 12: the Fir is…
What were the sweets on the tree, fam?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: sweets, tree
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | 4 sweets | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sweets | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sweets | det |
| 4 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sweets | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fam | punct |
| 9 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sweets | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sweets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the sweets and fam | the tree | 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
Candy canes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Candy | candy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 canes | compound |
| 2 | canes | cane | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Sugarplums in paper nets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sugarplums | sugarplum | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 nets | case |
| 3 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nets | compound |
| 4 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sugarplums | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Chocolate in silver foil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 foil | case |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 foil | compound |
| 4 | foil | foil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chocolate | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Sweet figs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 figs | amod |
| 2 | figs | fig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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