Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir…

Wait, what did the sparrows say the Christmas trees had on them?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sparrows, Christmas trees · What happens: wait, say, have · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sparrows	det
6	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trees	det
9	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 trees	compound
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the sparrows		tree rules
3	have	past	the Christmas trees	on sparrows = sparrow	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Honey cakes and gilded apples

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cakes	compound
2	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 apples	cc
4	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 apples	amod
5	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cakes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gild	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Honey cakes and gilded apples and tiny glass birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cakes	compound
2	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 apples	cc
4	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 apples	amod
5	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cakes	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 birds	cc
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 birds	amod
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 birds	compound
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cakes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gild	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Sugar plums and wrapped sweets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plums	compound
2	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sweets	cc
4	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sweets	amod
5	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 plums	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	participle							vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Tinsel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tinsel	tinsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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