Test 11 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Bird of Truth, part 55: the bo…

What's the owl's sort of job in that desert?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sort, owl · What happens: be, sort · To what, where: job, desert

This is test 11 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 owl	det
4	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sort	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 owl	case
6	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 job	case
8	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sort	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 desert	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 desert	det
11	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sort	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the owl's sort of job in that desert						tree rules
2	sort		the owl	job		that desert			nom sort «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient in=place

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

Hermit's life, all alone in the desert, no mates, no nothing, proper lonely

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hermit	Hermit	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 life	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Hermit	case
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 desert	punct
5	all	all	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 desert	advmod
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 all	fixed
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 desert	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 desert	det
9	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 life	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mates	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 mates	det
12	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 desert	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nothing	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 nothing	det
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 life	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lonely	punct
17	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lonely	amod
18	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 life	parataxis

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

Option 2

Lonely, no mates, just the sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mates	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mates	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 mates	det
4	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sand	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 sand	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sand	det
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mates	conj

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

Option 3

Hermit's life, all on her own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hermit	Hermit	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 life	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Hermit	case
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 all	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 life	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 own	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 all	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Hermit's life, all alone, no mates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hermit	Hermit	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 life	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Hermit	case
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 alone	punct
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 alone	advmod
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 life	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mates	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 mates	det
9	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 life	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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