Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is…

no cap, why was the tree so bored in the dark?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: be · To what, where: tree

This is test 4 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 cap	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tree	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 bored	advmod
9	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tree	amod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 dark	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dark	det
12	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bored	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 tree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	no cap	the tree					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

nobody came to visit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 visit	mark
4	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	nobody						tree rules
2	visit	to-infinitive	nobody not said here						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

it was dark

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	3 dark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dark	cop
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					dark property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

no hare to look at

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 hare	det
2	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 look	mark
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hare	acl
5	at	at	ADP	_	4 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	to-infinitive							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

too cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	too	too	ADV	_	2 cold	advmod
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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.

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