Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christm…

what dropped on the shore after the storm, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: drop · To what, where: shore

This is test 7 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 shore	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shore	det
5	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 storm	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 storm	det
8	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruv	punct
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 storm	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 dropped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past				the shore	after the storm		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on shore=Trajectory

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

the broken mast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mast	det
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 mast	amod
3	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the huge oak tree that the storm had torn from the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tree	amod
3	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 torn	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 storm	det
7	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 torn	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 torn	aux
9	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 tree	acl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 torn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear	past · perfect	the storm	the huge oak tree not said here				from the ground	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient from ground=Co-Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the old oak tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tree	amod
3	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the old oak tree that had stood for centuries on the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tree	amod
3	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 stood	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stood	aux
7	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 tree	acl:relcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 centuries	case
9	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stood	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 hill	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hill	det
12	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · perfect	the old oak tree			the hill	century		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location

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