Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir…

Fam, what did the emperor say to himself?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: emperor · What happens: say · To what, where: Fam, emperor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 emperor	det
6	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fam	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 say	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the emperor	Fam	emperor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to himself=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

Now I must bear up to the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 bear	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 bear	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bear	aux
4	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 bear	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear up	must	I				to the end; now		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

"This is a disaster"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 disaster	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 disaster	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 disaster	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 disaster	det
5	disaster	disaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 disaster	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	This	a disaster					tree rules

Option 3

"Surely this parade is never ending"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 ending	punct
2	Surely	surely	ADV	_	7 ending	advmod
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 parade	det
4	parade	parade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ending	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ending	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 ending	advmod
7	ending	end	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 ending	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not end in a quote	present · progressive	this parade					surely property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

"Now I must go home at once"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 go	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 go	obl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	must	I				now	home property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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