Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter…

No cap, what was the old raven doing on the fence?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap, old raven · What happens: be, do · To what, where: old raven, fence

This is test 2 · ★ 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 raven	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 raven	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 raven	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 raven	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 raven	amod
8	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cap	appos
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 raven	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 fence	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fence	det
12	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doing	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	no cap	the old raven					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the old raven not said here			the fence			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Singing loudly to the morning sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Singing	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sun	compound
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund			the morning sun			loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sun=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Dropping knowledge on the sparrows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dropping	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 sparrows	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sparrows	det
5	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dropping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	gerund		knowledge		the sparrows			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme on sparrow=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Teaching the young sparrows how to build their nests in the high trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teaching	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 build	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sparrows	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sparrows	amod
4	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Teaching	obj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 build	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 build	mark
7	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nests	nmod:poss
9	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 build	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 trees	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trees	det
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 trees	amod
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 build	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	gerund		the young sparrows					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sparrow=Recipient
2	build	to-infinitive	Teaching	sparrows's nests		the high trees			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product

Option 4

Scolding the sparrows for noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scolding	scold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sparrows	det
3	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Scolding	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 noise	case
5	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scolding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	gerund		the sparrows				for noise	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent sparrow=Theme for noise=Attribute

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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