Test 5 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins r…

Tell me, wicked, what was the swallows' gossip about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: me, gossip · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wicked	punct
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gossip	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 gossip	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gossip	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 swallows	det
9	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gossip	nmod:poss
10	'	's	PART	_	9 swallows	case
11	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wicked	obl
12	about	about	ADP	_	11 gossip	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is a	past		the swallows's gossip					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

the king's new bride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a new queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 queen	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 queen	amod
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a wedding feast plan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 plan	det
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feast	compound
3	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plan	compound
4	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a queen and crystal cradle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cradle	cc
4	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cradle	amod
5	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 queen	conj

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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