Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden…

Sick, what sort of tree was the mum-tree living in?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: sick, be · To what, where: sort

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 872 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden wedding and the boy's flight through the seasons» 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	Sick	sick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sort	punct
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 sort	det
4	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sick	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	12 living	case
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 living	compound
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 living	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 living	det
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 mum	punct
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 living	compound
12	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	4 sort	fixed
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sick	imperative	you not said here	what sort					tree rules
2	is	past						of the tree tree living	tree rules

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 ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ash	det
2	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the beech-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	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 beech	punct
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the elder-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	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tree	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 elder	punct
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 oak	det
2	oak	oak	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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