Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir…

Yo, what was on the very top?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	8 top	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 top	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 top	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 top	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 top	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 top	advmod
8	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 top	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						top 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

A bright crown of paper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crown	det
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crown	amod
3	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 paper	case
5	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crown	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crown			paper					nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A shiny star made of tinsel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 star	det
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 star	amod
3	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 star	acl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 tinsel	case
6	tinsel	tinsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		a shiny star not said here				of tinsel	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 3

A shiny star made of tinsel and a silver ribbon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 star	det
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 star	amod
3	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 star	acl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 tinsel	case
6	tinsel	tinsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ribbon	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ribbon	det
9	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ribbon	amod
10	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tinsel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		a shiny star not said here				of tinsel and a silver ribbon	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4

A large shiny star made of tinsel and bright paper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 star	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 star	amod
3	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 star	amod
4	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 star	acl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 tinsel	case
7	tinsel	tinsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 paper	cc
9	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 paper	amod
10	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tinsel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		a large shiny star not said here				of tinsel and bright paper	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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