Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter…

Yo, which of these was the real sign that spring was here?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spring · What happens: be · To what, where: real sign

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1031 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter and the two children of Spring» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	9 sign	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sign	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 sign	case
5	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 sign	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sign	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sign	det
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sign	amod
9	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 here	mark
11	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 here	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 here	cop
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 sign	acl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 sign	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						of the real sign	tree rules
2	is	past	spring	the real sign not said here				here property	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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Snow melting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melting	compound
2	melting	melting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Flowers blooming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	blooming	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Flowers	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bloom	gerund	Flowers not said here						vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Storks flying in from the south

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Storks	acl
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 flying	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 south	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 south	det
6	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly in	gerund	Storks not said here			the south			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from south=Trajectory

Option 4

Frogs croaking by the old pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	croaking	croak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Frogs	acl
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 pond	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pond	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pond	amod
6	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 croaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	croak	gerund	Frogs not said here					by the old pond	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP 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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