Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 12: the Fir is…

Wicked, so the kids just wrecked the tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wicked · What happens: wreck · To what, where: tree

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wrecked	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wrecked	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 wrecked	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kids	det
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wrecked	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 wrecked	advmod
7	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrecked	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 wrecked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wreck	past	Wicked	the tree					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

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, they were allowed to strip it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 allowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 allowed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 allowed	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 allowed	aux:pass
5	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 strip	mark
7	strip	strip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 allowed	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 strip	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	past · passive		they					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	strip not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	it					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Nah, they were told to leave it alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux:pass
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 leave	mark
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 leave	obj
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		they					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	it				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they had permission to plunder it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 plunder	mark
7	plunder	plunder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 permission	acl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 plunder	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	permission					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient
2	plunder	to-infinitive	they not said here	permission					vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source

Option 4

Nah, they were told off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux:pass
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 told	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	past · passive		they					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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