Test 2 · ★ · pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's House, part 17: ashes…

wait, the sparrows were yelling what, like, exactly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, sparrows · What happens: wait, yell

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1151 «pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's House, part 17: ashes in the sieve, cats weave, black casket» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 yelling	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sparrows	det
4	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 yelling	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 yelling	aux
6	yelling	yell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 wait	advcl
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 yelling	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	7 what	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
11	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 what	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	yell speech: express	past · progressive	the sparrows						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

ashes, ashes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ashes	punct
3	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 ashes	conj

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

Option 2

ash!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 ash	punct

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

Option 3

fire, fire, the house is burning down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fire	punct
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fire	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 burning	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burning	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 burning	aux
8	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 fire	conj
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 burning	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn down	present · progressive	the house						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

ashes, ashes, come and see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ashes	punct
3	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 ashes	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 ashes	parataxis
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 see	cc
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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