Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is…
sus, what would the tree be happy about if somebody came for it?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sus, somebody · What happens: be, come
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | sus | sus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happy | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 happy | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 happy | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 happy | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happy | nsubj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 happy | cop |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 11 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happy | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 happy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | sus | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come a condition, not said to happen | past | somebody | for tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
getting out of that place
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 getting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | gerund | that place | tree rules |
Option 2
getting out of that dusty place and back into the sunshine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 place | det |
| 5 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 place | amod |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 getting | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 back | cc |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 place | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 sunshine | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sunshine | det |
| 11 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 getting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | gerund | that dusty place | the sunshine | tree rules |
Option 3
seeing the green forest again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 forest | det |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 forest | amod |
| 4 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 seeing | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 seeing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the green forest | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer forest=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
getting out of that place and being carried into a bright room full of children
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 carried | csubj |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 getting | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 carried | cc |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 carried | aux:pass |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 room | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 room | det |
| 11 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 room | amod |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obl |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 room | amod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 children | case |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 full | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | gerund | that place | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | carry | gerund · passive | getting | a bright room | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» |
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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