Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is…

fr, what did the rats say about Humpty Dumpty?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr, rats · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rats	det
6	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 Dumpty	case
9	Humpty	Humpty	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Dumpty	compound
10	Dumpty	Dumpty	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	fr						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the rats					about Humpty Dumpty	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

it was not a pretty story and they wanted a story about bacon and cheese instead

The tree, 16 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	6 story	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 story	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 story	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 story	amod
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wanted	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 story	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 story	det
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wanted	obj
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 bacon	case
13	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 story	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cheese	cc
15	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bacon	conj
16	instead	instead	ADV	_	9 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	it	a pretty story					tree rules
2	want	past	they	a story				about bacon and cheese; instead property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot story=Theme

Option 2

it was not a pretty story at all, and they had heard it many times before in the storeroom

The tree, 19 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	6 story	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 story	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 story	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 story	amod
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 story	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 heard	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	aux
13	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 story	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	obj
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 times	amod
16	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 heard	obl:unmarked
17	before	before	ADP	_	20 storeroom	case
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 storeroom	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 storeroom	det
20	storeroom	storeroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	it	a pretty story		all			tree rules
2	hear	past · perfect	they	story			before the storeroom; time		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

they liked it very much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	obj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	2 liked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	they	it					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

it was not a pretty story

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	6 story	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 story	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 story	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 story	amod
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	it	a pretty story					tree rules

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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