Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir…

Bruh, why was the fir-tree lowkey salty all the time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tree lowkey · What happens: be

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 825 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir-tree longs to be tall, is cut down, and is dressed for Christmas» 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	3 why	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lowkey	det
6	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 fir	punct
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lowkey	compound
9	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 why	nsubj
10	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lowkey	amod
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 time	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lowkey	obl:unmarked
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tree lowkey					why property	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

It wanted to be as tall as the others, so it could see the whole forest from the top

The tree, 19 words

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 tall	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 tall	cop
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 tall	advmod
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	xcomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 others	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 others	det
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tall	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 see	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 forest	amod
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 top	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 top	det
20	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	It				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive				as the others; tall property	tree rules
3	see	could	it	the whole forest	the top		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer forest=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It wanted to be as tall as the others

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 tall	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 tall	cop
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 tall	advmod
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	xcomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 others	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 others	det
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	It						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive						as the others; tall property	tree rules

Option 3

It wanted to be as tall as the others and to be cut down for a feast

The tree, 17 words

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 tall	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 tall	cop
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 tall	advmod
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	xcomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 others	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 others	det
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tall	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cut	cc
11	to	to	PART	_	13 cut	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 cut	aux:pass
13	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wanted	conj
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 cut	compound:prt
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 feast	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 feast	det
17	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	want	past	It		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive		as the others; tall property	tree rules
3	cut down	to-infinitive · passive		for a feast	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: for feast=Asset

Option 4

It wished to grow taller than others

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	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 grow	mark
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	xcomp
5	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	xcomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 others	case
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 taller	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	It						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	grow not said to happen	to-infinitive						tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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