Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His Daughters, part 239…

where's the whole gang of birds living now?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whole gang, birds · What happens: be, live

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1028 «Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His Daughters, part 239: the forest is felled, the ship is never sold, and the gold-making ends in smoke» 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	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gang	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gang	amod
5	gang	gang	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 where	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 birds	case
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gang	nmod
8	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 birds	acl
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 living	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the whole gang of birds					where property	tree rules
2	live	gerund	birds not said here				now		vn exist-47.1-1 «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

building nests in the church tower now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nests	compound
2	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 tower	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tower	det
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tower	compound
6	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nests	nmod
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 nests	advmod

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

Option 2

homeless, flying about in fear and anger, with no trees left to rest in at all

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	homeless	homeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trees	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 flying	punct
3	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 trees	amod
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 fear	case
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 fear	case
6	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flying	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 anger	cc
8	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fear	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trees	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 trees	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 trees	det
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
13	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 trees	acl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 rest	mark
15	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 left	advcl
16	in	in	ADV	_	15 rest	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 rest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund			about fear and anger	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about fear=Location
2	leave	participle	no homeless flying trees not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rest	to-infinitive		all		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

homeless, flying about in fear and anger over the fields and the ship on the shore

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	homeless	homeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 flying	punct
3	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 homeless	advcl
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 fear	case
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 fear	case
6	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flying	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 anger	cc
8	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fear	conj
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 fields	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fields	det
11	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flying	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ship	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ship	det
14	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fields	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 shore	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shore	det
17	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ship	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund				the fields and the ship on the shore		about fear and anger	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about fear=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

homeless, flying about in fear and anger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	homeless	homeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flying	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 flying	punct
3	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 fear	case
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 fear	case
6	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flying	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 anger	cc
8	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fear	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund						about fear and anger	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about fear=Location

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