Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 12: the Fir is…

Who put the fire out when the candle set the branches alight, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: candle · What happens: put out, set · To what, where: fire, branches

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	2 put	compound:prt
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 set	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 candle	det
8	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	nsubj
9	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 branches	det
11	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 set	obj
12	alight	alight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 branches	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	9 set	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put out	past		the fire					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal
2	set	past	the candle	the branches					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient branch=Result

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

The cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The young ladies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ladies	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ladies	amod
3	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

The little fat man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def 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 4

The nurse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nurse	det
2	nurse	nurse	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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