Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir…

Bro, what covered up the tub?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: cover up · To what, where: tub

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 covered	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 covered	nsubj
4	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 covered	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tub	det
7	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 covered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover up	past		the tub				Bro vocative	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tub=Destination

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

A large green baize cloth draped all around it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cloth	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cloth	amod
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cloth	amod
4	baize	baize	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cloth	compound
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 draped	nsubj
6	draped	drape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	ADV	_	6 draped	advmod
8	around	around	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 draped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drape	past	a large green baize cloth			it		all property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent around it=Destination

Option 2

A heavy green curtain hanging down to the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 curtain	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 curtain	amod
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 curtain	amod
4	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 curtain	acl
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 hanging	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 floor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hanging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang down	gerund	a heavy green curtain not said here					to the floor; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Green baize

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 baize	amod
2	baize	baize	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Brown paper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 paper	amod
2	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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