Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: t…

Fam, what do the storms sing to the tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fam · What happens: do, sing · To what, where: Fam, tree

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 866 «Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: the jumping contest ends, and the old oak gets ready for winter sleep» 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fam	parataxis
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 storms	det
6	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	obj
7	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		Fam					tree rules
2	sing speech: express	present	Fam		the tree				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to tree=Recipient

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

Lullaby, lullaby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lullaby	punct
3	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lullaby	conj

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

Option 2

Sing soft, sing soft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sing	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sing	punct
4	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Sing	advcl
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	imperative	you not said here					soft property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	present	you not said here					soft property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Hush, hush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hush	hush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hush	punct
3	hush	hush	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hush	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Good-night, good-night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 night	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Good	punct
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 night	punct
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 night	conj

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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