Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir…

Bruh, what did the wind and sunbeam tell the tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wind · What happens: do, tell · To what, where: tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sunbeam	cc
8	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wind	conj
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present	the wind and sunbeam	the tree					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tree=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Rejoice in thy youth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rejoice	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 youth	case
3	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 youth	nmod:poss
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rejoice	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rejoice	imperative	you not said here			thy youth			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Be brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Be	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	imperative	you not said here					brave property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Be glad of thy green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 glad	cop
2	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 green	case
4	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 green	nmod:poss
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 glad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					of thy green; glad property	tree rules

Option 4

Grow tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	imperative	you not said here					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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