Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir…

Ngl, what lit up the tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: light up · To what, where: tree

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lit	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lit	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 lit	nsubj
4	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 lit	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lit	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light up	past	Ngl	the tree					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product

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

Hundreds of tiny candles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 candles	case
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 candles	amod
4	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hundreds	nmod

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

Option 2

Hundreds of wax tapers placed on every single branch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 tapers	case
3	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tapers	compound
4	tapers	taper	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hundreds	nmod
5	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tapers	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 branch	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 branch	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 branch	amod
9	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 placed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	participle		wax tapers not said here		every single branch			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on branch=Destination

Option 3

Dozens of golden lanterns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dozens	dozen	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 lanterns	case
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lanterns	amod
4	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dozens	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Hundreds of wax tapers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 tapers	case
3	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tapers	compound
4	tapers	taper	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hundreds	nmod

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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