--- title: no cap, why was the tree so bored in the dark? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree,… · tree and pragmatics description: no cap, why was the tree so bored in the dark? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 826 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is thrown out and its gold star is pulled off» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/826-pg27200-part37/t4/) [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/826-pg27200-part37/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is… no cap, why was the tree so bored in the dark? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cap · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** tree This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 826 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is thrown out and its gold star is pulled off» 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/826-pg27200-part37/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t4:1 # text = no cap, why was the tree so bored in the dark? 1 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 bored bored ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | no cap | the tree | | | | | 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 {#o1} nobody came to visit ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t4:o1:1 # text = nobody came to visit 1 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 nsubj _ _ 2 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | nobody | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} it was dark ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t4:o2:1 # text = it was dark 1 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | it | | | | | dark *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} no hare to look at ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t4:o3:1 # text = no hare to look at 1 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ### Option 4 {#o4} too cold ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t4:o4:1 # text = too cold 1 too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 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. 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