Test 7 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo di…

What's a dirge then, like a proper song?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: dirge

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1170 «Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo dies, the wife poisons herself, and a queen is promised a daughter» 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	4 dirge	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dirge	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dirge	det
4	dirge	dirge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 dirge	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 song	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 song	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 song	det
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 song	amod
10	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dirge	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dirge	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a dirge and a proper song			then		tree rules

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

A slow sad song for someone dead, sung at the funeral by the women

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 song	det
2	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 song	amod
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 song	amod
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 someone	case
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 song	nmod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 someone	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sung	punct
9	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 song	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 funeral	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 funeral	det
12	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sung	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 women	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 women	det
15	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	participle				the funeral		by the women	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at funeral=Location

Option 2

A loud war song sung by the men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 song	det
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 song	amod
3	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 song	compound
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 song	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 men	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	participle		a loud war song not said here				by the men	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by man=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A slow sad song for someone dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 song	det
2	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 song	amod
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 song	amod
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 someone	case
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 song	nmod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 someone	amod

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

Option 4

A slow sad song for someone dead, often sung on the road home to the village

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 song	det
2	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 song	amod
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 song	amod
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 someone	case
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 dead	obl
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sung	punct
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 sung	advmod
10	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dead	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 road	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 road	det
13	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sung	obl
14	home	home	ADV	_	10 sung	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 village	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 village	det
17	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	participle				the road		to the village; home, often property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on road=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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