Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir…

No lie, what was hanging off the branches?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lie · What happens: hang off · To what, where: branches

This is test 8 · ★ 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 lie	det
2	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hanging	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 hanging	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hanging	aux
6	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lie	acl
7	off	off	ADP	_	9 branches	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 branches	det
9	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hanging	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 lie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang off	past · progressive	no lie	the branches					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Patient

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

Little bags of sweets and small wooden toys for the children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bags	amod
2	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 sweets	case
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bags	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 toys	cc
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 toys	amod
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 toys	amod
8	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sweets	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 children	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 children	det
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bags	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Little bags of sweets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bags	amod
2	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 sweets	case
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bags	nmod

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

Option 3

Tiny paper boxes of nuts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boxes	amod
2	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boxes	compound
3	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 nuts	case
5	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 boxes	nmod

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

Option 4

Dozens of tiny little bags of sweets tied with silver thread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dozens	dozen	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 bags	case
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bags	amod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bags	amod
5	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dozens	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 sweets	case
7	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bags	nmod
8	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sweets	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 thread	case
10	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thread	compound
11	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		sweets not said here				with silver thread	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with thread=Co-Patient

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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