Test 5 · ★ · Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in…

Real talk, what did the storks do when autumn came?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: storks, autumn · What happens: do, come · To what, where: Real talk

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1032 «Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in autumn and the old Winter waits for the stork» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 storks	det
7	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 came	advmod
10	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		Real talk	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Eventuality
2	do	present	the storks		tree rules
3	come	past	autumn		vn escape-51.1-1 «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

they flew away to the warm south lands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 lands	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lands	det
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lands	amod
7	south	South	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lands	amod
8	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	past	they					to the warm south lands result; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to land=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they flew south away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	south	south	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	past	they					away, south property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

they left the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 land	det
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	they	the land					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme

Option 4

they gathered in flocks and flew off over the mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gathered	nsubj
2	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 flocks	case
4	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gathered	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 flew	cc
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gathered	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 flew	compound:prt
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 mountains	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mountains	det
10	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past	they			flocks			vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly off	past	they not said here			the mountains			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Location

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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