Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir…

Real talk, what was the tree scared about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 scared	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 scared	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 scared	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scared	obl:unmarked
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	conj
9	about	about	ADP	_	8 scared	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Real talk					the tree obl:unmarked; scared 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

Being cut down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 cut	aux:pass
2	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 cut	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut down	gerund · passive							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 2

Falling off the tall table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	5 table	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 table	det
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 table	amod
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Falling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	gerund		the tall table					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient table=Extent

Option 3

Being burnt by the candles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 burnt	aux:pass
2	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 candles	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 candles	det
5	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 burnt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	gerund · passive	the candles						tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Getting hurt by the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hurt	aux:pass
2	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	gerund · passive	the fire						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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