Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christm…

wait, what did the cuckoo tell him, sick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cuckoo · What happens: wait, tell · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 867 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christmas storm uproots the oak as he dreams of summer and of all the small plants rising up with him» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 tell	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cuckoo	det
6	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	nsubj
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sick	punct
10	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tell	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the cuckoo		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic

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

how many summers and winters he had left in the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 summers	amod
3	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 left	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 winters	cc
5	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 summers	conj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 left	aux
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wood	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect · passive		many summers and winters		the wood			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in wood=Location

Option 2

how many summers he had left before the axe came down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 summers	amod
3	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 left	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	aux
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 summers	acl:relcl
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 axe	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 axe	det
9	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect	he	many summers not said here		the axe			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent summer=Theme before axe=Location
2	come down	past	many summers					down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

how long the frost would last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 last	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 frost	det
4	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 last	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 last	aux
6	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	would	the frost					long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

how many summers he had left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 summers	amod
3	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 left	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	aux
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 summers	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect	he	many summers not said here					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summer=Theme

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