Test 11 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses, part 20: the stepmo…

What woke all the birds up in the trees, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: wake up · To what, where: birds, trees

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1154 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses, part 20: the stepmother drowns the princess and disguises her own daughter as the bride» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 woke	nsubj
2	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 birds	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birds	det
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 woke	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	2 woke	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 woke	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trees	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 woke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	past		all birds		the trees and bruv			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bird=Patient

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

The girl's loud singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 singing	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 girl	case
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 singing	amod
5	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing		the girl						nom singing «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The doves' loud clucking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 doves	det
2	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loud	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 doves	case
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	clucking	cluck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 loud	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cluck	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A dog barking loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 dog	acl
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	3 barking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	gerund	a dog not said here					loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 storm	det
2	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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