Test 3 · ★ · Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 141: Ole explai…

So the fir tree was just chilling in the dust-cart?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fir tree · What happens: chill · To what, where: dust cart

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 930 «Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 141: Ole explains the six glasses, the tree in the dust-cart, and Death's omnibus» 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 chilling	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
3	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chilling	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chilling	aux
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 chilling	advmod
7	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 cart	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cart	det
10	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cart	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 dust	punct
12	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chilling	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 chilling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	past · progressive	the fir tree			the dust cart			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Yeah, still green with tinsel and stars, and honestly kinda sad to see it lying there alone in the rubbish heap all day long

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 green	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 green	punct
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 green	advmod
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 tinsel	case
6	tinsel	tinsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 green	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stars	cc
8	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tinsel	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sad	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sad	cc
11	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	13 sad	advmod
12	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	13 sad	advmod
13	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 green	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sad	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	obj
17	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 see	xcomp
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 lying	advmod
19	alone	alone	ADV	_	17 lying	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 heap	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 heap	det
22	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heap	compound
23	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lying	obl
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lying	obl:unmarked
26	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		it				long property	tree rules
2	lie	gerund				the rubbish heap; there	day	alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heap=Location

Option 2

Yep, dry and brown with no tinsel left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 dry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 brown	cc
5	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dry	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 tinsel	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 tinsel	det
8	tinsel	tinsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dry	obl
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tinsel	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		no tinsel not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, still green with tinsel, kinda sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 green	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 green	punct
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 green	advmod
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 tinsel	case
6	tinsel	tinsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 green	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sad	punct
8	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	9 sad	advmod
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 green	conj

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

Option 4

Yeah, still green but no tinsel now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 green	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 green	punct
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 green	advmod
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 tinsel	cc
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 tinsel	det
7	tinsel	tinsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 green	conj
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 green	advmod

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

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