Test 10 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Bird of Truth, part 55: the bo…

Did the swallow say when she was off to bed?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: swallow · What happens: say, be off · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1189 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Bird of Truth, part 55: the boy takes the white bird from the aviary, the enchanted water frees the captives, and the courtiers plot against the bird» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 swallow	det
3	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 was	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 was	nsubj
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 was	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 bed	case
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the swallow						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be off	past	swallow					to bed	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 right answer

Yeah, she was off to the sea, sunset and that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sea	cop
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 was	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sunset	punct
10	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sea	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sea	cc
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 sea	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that					to the sea and sunset	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she was off to the nest, dusk and that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 nest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 nest	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 nest	cop
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 was	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 nest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nest	det
8	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dusk	punct
10	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nest	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 that	cc
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 nest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					to the nest and dusk	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, she was off to the sea, morning and that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sea	cop
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 was	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 morning	punct
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sea	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sea	cc
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 sea	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that					to the sea and morning	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, she didn't say

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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