Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bu…

mad, what did the boy finally say at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, say · To what, where: boy, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 295 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bush grows from a teapot and shows an old couple's golden day» 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	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 mad	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	finally	finally	ADV	_	8 say	advmod
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the boy					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present					at the end	finally property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

good night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 night	amod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

it's over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 over	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 over	cop
3	over	over	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					over property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

that's no fairy tale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 tale	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tale	cop
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 tale	det
4	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tale	compound
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	no fairy tale					tree rules

Option 4

it was not so bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bad	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 bad	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 bad	advmod
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	it					bad property	tree rules

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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