Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is…

What was the fir-tree's conclusion regarding its future after the garret?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: conclusion, fir tree · What happens: be, regard, conclude · To what, where: future

This is exam question 3 of lesson 826 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is thrown out and its gold star is pulled off» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
4	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 fir	punct
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conclusion	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 tree	case
8	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
9	regarding	regard	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 conclusion	acl
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 future	nmod:poss
11	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 regarding	obj
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 garret	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 garret	det
14	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 regarding	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past	the fir tree's conclusion			tree rules
2	regard	gerund	the fir tree's conclusion not said here	conclusion's future	after the garret	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent future=Theme
3	conclude		the fir tree			nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: poss=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

It would be lonely once it was burned there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lonely	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lonely	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 lonely	cop
4	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	once	once	SCONJ	_	8 burned	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 burned	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 burned	aux:pass
8	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lonely	advcl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 burned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					lonely property	tree rules
2	burn	past · passive		it		there			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would be content once removed from that place, and the mice would come back to visit it every night

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 content	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 content	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 content	cop
4	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 removed	advmod
6	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 content	advcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 place	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 place	det
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 removed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 come	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mice	det
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 come	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 content	conj
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 visit	mark
18	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 come	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 visit	obj
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 night	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 visit	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It				content property	tree rules
2	remove	participle			that place		once property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from place=Source
3	come back	would	the mice					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	visit	to-infinitive	the mice not said here	place		night		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would be content once removed from that place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 content	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 content	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 content	cop
4	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 removed	advmod
6	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 content	advcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 place	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 place	det
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 removed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					content property	tree rules
2	remove	participle				that place		once property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from place=Source

Option 4

It would be content once it was removed from that dusty place and carried back into the sun

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 content	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 content	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 content	cop
4	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	once	once	SCONJ	_	8 removed	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 removed	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 removed	aux:pass
8	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 content	advcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 place	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 place	det
11	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 place	amod
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 removed	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 carried	cc
14	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 content	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 carried	advmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 sun	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sun	det
18	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	would	It			content property	tree rules
2	remove	past · passive		it	that dusty place		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from place=Source
3	carry back	past			the sun		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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