Test 11 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins r…

Bruv, what does the Bird of Truth say?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bird · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1188 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins run off, reach a shut hut, and overhear swallows talking about a queen and a crystal cradle» 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	9 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 say	obj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Bird	det
6	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Truth	case
8	Truth	Truth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Bird	nmod
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the Bird of Truth					Bruv vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: 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

the gossip of birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gossip	det
2	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 birds	case
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gossip	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gossip		birds						nom gossip «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

the words of kings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 kings	case
4	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 words	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	word			kings					nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the truth of men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 truth	det
2	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 men	case
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 truth	nmod

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

Option 4

the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 truth	det
2	truth	truth	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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