Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon, part 11:…

Bruv, what do the giant's birds have to be?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: birds · What happens: do, have, be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1145 «Fairy Book, How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon, part 11: the fox tricks the wolf, and Ian gets a hard task» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 birds	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 giant	case
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 be	mark
11	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	present		Bruv vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	have	present	the giant's birds		tree rules
3	be	to-infinitive	the giant's birds not said here		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

Left alone all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Left	xcomp
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Left	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle					day	alone property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Locked up in a shed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Locked	compound:prt
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 shed	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shed	det
5	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock up	participle				a shed			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Treated kindly, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	1 Treated	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cap	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 cap	det
5	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Treated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat	participle		no cap				kindly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Fed only bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 bread	advmod
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	participle		bread					vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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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