Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 12: the Fir is…

Was the nurse only checking for stuff left over, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nurse · What happens: be, check, leave over · To what, where: nurse, stuff

This is test 9 · ★ 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	3 nurse	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nurse	det
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 checking	advmod
5	checking	check	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 nurse	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 stuff	case
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 checking	obl
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stuff	acl
9	over	over	ADV	_	8 left	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuff	appos
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 nurse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the nurse		tree rules
2	check	gerund	the nurse not said here		for stuff	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for stuff=Attribute
3	leave over	participle		stuff not said here	over property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, a toy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 toy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 toy	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 toy	det
4	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a fig or an apple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fig	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fig	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fig	det
4	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 apple	cc
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 apple	det
7	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fig	conj

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

Option 3

Yeah, a walnut or a plum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 walnut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 walnut	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 walnut	det
4	walnut	walnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 plum	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 plum	det
7	plum	plum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walnut	conj

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

Option 4

Nah, just crumbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 crumbs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 crumbs	advmod
4	crumbs	crumb	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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