Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is…

so like, what did the tree say about being old?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: tree · What happens: do, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 did	advmod
2	like	like	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 like	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 old	case
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 old	cop
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 say	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the tree		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	gerund		old property	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

I am old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 old	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 old	cop
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					old property	tree rules

Option 2

Not old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 old	advmod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

"I am not old"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 old	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 old	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 old	advmod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	I					old property	tree rules

Option 4

I am only young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 young	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 young	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 young	advmod
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					young property	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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