Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the fir-tree burns, and…

Dude, what did the tree hear every time the fire popped?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tree, fire · What happens: hear, pop · To what, where: Dude, time

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hear	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 hear	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hear	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	nsubj
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dude	conj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 popped	nsubj
12	popped	pop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 time	acl:relcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	the tree	Dude			time		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	pop	participle	the fire	every time not said here					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=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

a little hum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hum	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hum	amod
3	hum	hum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a shriek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shriek	det
2	shriek	shriek	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a loud crack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crack	det
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crack	amod
3	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a deep sigh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sigh	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sigh	amod
3	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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