Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the fir-tree burns, and…

Ngl, what did the fern keep singing about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl, fern · What happens: do, keep, sing

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	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 fern	det
6	fern	fern	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	8 singing	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	present	the fern	tree rules
3	sing speech: express	gerund	the fern not said here	vn sound_emission-43.2 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

"Snip, snap, snurre, Basse lurre"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Snip	punct
2	Snip	snip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 snap	punct
4	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Snip	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 snurre	punct
6	snurre	snurre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Snip	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lurre	punct
8	Basse	Basse	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lurre	compound
9	lurre	lurre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Snip	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 lurre	punct

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

Option 2

"Snip, snap, snurre, Basse lurre, the old tree sleeps now"

The tree, 10 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Snip	punct
2	Snip	snip	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sleeps	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 snap	punct
4	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Snip	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 snurre	punct
6	snurre	snurre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Snip	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lurre	punct
8	Basse	Basse	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lurre	compound
9	lurre	lurre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Snip	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Snip	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tree	amod
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sleeps	nsubj
14	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 sleeps	advmod
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 sleeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep in a quote	present	Snip and snap and snurre and Basse lurre				now		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

"Snip, snap, snurre, Basse lurre, the fire will burn tonight"

The tree, 10 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Snip	punct
2	Snip	snip	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 burn	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 snap	punct
4	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Snip	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 snurre	punct
6	snurre	snurre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Snip	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lurre	punct
8	Basse	Basse	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lurre	compound
9	lurre	lurre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Snip	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Snip	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 burn	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 burn	aux
14	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 burn	obl:unmarked
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 burn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn in a quote	future	Snip and snap and snurre and Basse lurre				tonight		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

"Tra la la, the wind is blowing"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tra	punct
2	Tra	Tra	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 blowing	nsubj
3	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	2 Tra	dep
4	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	3 la	flat:foreign
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tra	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blowing	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 blowing	aux
9	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 blowing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow in a quote	present · progressive	Tra						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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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