Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is…
yo so when the candles burned down, who got to raid the tree?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: burn down, get, raid · To what, where: yo, tree
This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 burned | advmod |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 burned | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 candles | det |
| 5 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 burned | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 burned | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 raid | mark |
| 12 | raid | raid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 got | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 raid | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 burned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn down | participle · passive | yo | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | raid | to-infinitive | the tree | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent tree=Location |
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 · ✓ the right answer
the children
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
the youngest children and the maid together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 children | amod |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 maid | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maid | det |
| 6 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 children | conj |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 children | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the grown-ups
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ups | det |
| 2 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ups | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 grown | punct |
| 4 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
the cook
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cook | det |
| 2 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/826-pg27200-part37/t1/