Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the fir-tree burns, and…

Ok but why did the paper stay home?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: paper · What happens: stay

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 827 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the fir-tree burns, and the flax becomes linen and then paper» 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	7 stay	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 stay	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 stay	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stay	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 paper	det
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	nsubj
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 stay	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past · do-support	the paper					home property	vn exist-47.1 «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

printing made more books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	printing	print	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 books	amod
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 books	amod
4	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 printing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	print	gerund		made more books					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme
2	make	participle							vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2

the printer was too busy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 printer	det
2	printer	printer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 busy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 busy	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 busy	advmod
5	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

it was too old

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	4 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

books were cheap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cheap	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cheap	cop
3	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	books					cheap 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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