Test 5 · ★ · City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregri…

«a car alarm's going off but there's no car, wtf» What could it be?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: car alarm, car · What happens: go off, be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 369 «City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings» of the biology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 alarm	det
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 alarm	compound
4	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 going	compound:prt
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 's	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 's	expl
10	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 going	conj
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 car	det
12	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 's	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wtf	punct
14	wtf	wtf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 car	appos
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 wtf	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 be	obj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 be	aux
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 be	nsubj
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 wtf	acl:relcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off in a quote	present · progressive	a car alarm						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	be in a quote	present	no car			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

A starling copying the sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 starling	det
2	starling	starling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	copying	copy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 starling	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sound	det
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 copying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	gerund	a starling not said here	the sound					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme

Option 2

A sparrow in a dust bath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sparrow	det
2	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 bath	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bath	det
5	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bath	compound
6	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sparrow	nmod

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

Option 3

A crow laughing at you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crow	det
2	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 crow	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 laughing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund	a crow not said here					at you	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A ghost car that drove away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 car	det
2	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 car	compound
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 drove	nsubj
5	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 car	acl:relcl
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 drove	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive away	past	a ghost car					away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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