--- title: Lowkey wild, what did the stork say the ships' masts smelt like? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree,… · tree and pragmatics description: Lowkey wild, what did the stork say the ships' masts smelt like? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 825 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir-tree longs to be tall, is cut down, and is dressed for Christmas» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/825-pg27200-part36/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/825-pg27200-part36/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir… Lowkey wild, what did the stork say the ships' masts smelt like? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** stork, masts · **What happens:** say, smelt · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 825 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir-tree longs to be tall, is cut down, and is dressed for Christmas» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/825-pg27200-part36/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t5:1 # text = Lowkey wild, what did the stork say the ships' masts smelt like? 1 Lowkey Lowkey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 obj _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ' 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 masts mast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 smelt smelt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the stork | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 2 | **smelt** | present | the ships's masts | | | | | | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Fir ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t5:o1:1 # text = Fir 1 Fir fir NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Pine ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t5:o2:1 # text = Pine 1 Pine pine NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Like sweet fir resin and summer sap ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t5:o3:1 # text = Like sweet fir resin and summer sap 1 Like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 fir fir NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 resin resin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 sap SAP NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Like the fresh smell of a fir forest after rain ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t5:o4:1 # text = Like the fresh smell of a fir forest after rain 1 Like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 fir fir NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 after after ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smell** | | a fir forest after rain | | | | | | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | **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. 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