Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the fir-tree burns, and…

Nah, what did the old linen say about falling apart?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old linen · What happens: do, say, fall apart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	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	7 linen	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 linen	amod
7	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 falling	mark
10	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 say	advcl
11	apart	apart	ADV	_	10 falling	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the old linen		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	fall apart	gerund	the old linen not said here	apart property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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 did not care

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 care	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 care	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 care	advmod
4	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not care	past · do-support	it						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it could not last much longer

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 last	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 last	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 last	advmod
4	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 longer	advmod
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 last	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not last	could	it					long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 3

it was not afraid of breaking

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 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 afraid	advmod
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 breaking	case
6	breaking	breaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	it					of breaking; afraid property	tree rules

Option 4

it was not afraid

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 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 afraid	advmod
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	it					afraid 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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