Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bachelor's Nightcap: old Anthony die…

Was the tree doing well at first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tree · What happens: be, do · To what, where: tree

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 918 «Andersen's Tales, The Bachelor's Nightcap: old Anthony dies alone, and his tears are found in a nightcap» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tree	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 tree	acl
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 doing	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 doing	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the tree					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the tree not said here					well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Nope, it was cut down early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cut	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	aux:pass
5	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 cut	compound:prt
7	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 cut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut down	past · passive		it				early property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, it was forsaken by a hedge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 forsaken	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forsaken	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 forsaken	aux:pass
5	forsaken	forsake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 hedge	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hedge	det
8	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forsaken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forsake	past · passive	a hedge	it					tree rules

Option 3

Nope, it was forsaken by a hedge, but later the whole town came to admire its fruit

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 forsaken	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forsaken	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 forsaken	aux:pass
5	forsaken	forsake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 hedge	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hedge	det
8	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forsaken	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 came	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 town	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 town	amod
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 forsaken	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 admire	mark
17	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 came	xcomp
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 fruit	nmod:poss
19	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 admire	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forsake	past · passive	a hedge	it		tree rules
2	come	past	the whole town		late property	tree rules
3	admire	to-infinitive	the whole town not said here	town's fruit		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fruit=Stimulus

Option 4

Yes, it was thriving in the sun beside the church and the great road

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 thriving	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thriving	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thriving	aux
5	thriving	thrive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thriving	obl
9	beside	beside	ADP	_	11 church	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 church	det
11	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thriving	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 road	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 road	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 road	amod
15	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 church	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thrive	past · progressive	it			the sun		beside the church and the great road	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location

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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