Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir…

Lowkey wild, what did the stork say the ships' masts smelt like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: stork, masts · What happens: say, smelt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wild	compound
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 say	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 say	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stork	det
7	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ships	det
10	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 masts	nmod:poss
11	'	's	PART	_	10 ships	case
12	masts	mast	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 smelt	nsubj
13	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 say	parataxis
14	like	like	ADP	_	13 smelt	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the stork						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	smelt	present	the ships's masts						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 · ✓ the right answer

Fir

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Pine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Like sweet fir resin and summer sap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 resin	case
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 resin	amod
3	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 resin	compound
4	resin	resin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sap	cc
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sap	compound
7	sap	SAP	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 resin	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Like the fresh smell of a fir forest after rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 smell	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smell	det
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smell	amod
4	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 forest	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 forest	det
7	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 forest	compound
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smell	nmod
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 rain	case
10	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 forest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell		a fir forest after rain						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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