Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir…

Fr, how did people tell how old a fir-tree was?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr · What happens: tell, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 tell	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 old	advmod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tell	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tree	det
10	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tree	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 fir	punct
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 old	obl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 old	cop
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	Fr						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past						a fir tree obl; old 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

By counting every single joint in its long stem from the root up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 counting	mark
2	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 joint	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 joint	amod
5	joint	joint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 counting	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 stem	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 stem	nmod:poss
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stem	amod
9	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 counting	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 root	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 root	det
12	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 counting	obl
13	up	up	ADP	_	2 counting	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count up	gerund		every single joint		joint's long stem		from the root	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joint=Theme
2	stem		joint						nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

By checking its bark and its needles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 checking	mark
2	checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bark	nmod:poss
4	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 checking	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 needles	cc
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 needles	nmod:poss
7	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bark	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	gerund		its bark and its needles					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Theme

Option 3

By counting the joints in its stem and measuring its branches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 counting	mark
2	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 joints	det
4	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 counting	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 stem	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 stem	nmod:poss
7	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 counting	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 measuring	cc
9	measuring	measure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 counting	conj
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 branches	nmod:poss
11	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 measuring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	count	gerund		the joints	its stem	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joint=Theme
2	measure	gerund		stem's branches		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme branch=Value
3	stem		its = it			nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

By counting the joints in its stem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 counting	mark
2	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 joints	det
4	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 counting	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 stem	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 stem	nmod:poss
7	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 counting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund		the joints		its stem			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joint=Theme
2	stem		its = it						nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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