Test 5 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Bird of Truth, part 55: the bo…

What did the dove say the boy must follow?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dove, boy · What happens: say, follow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	5 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dove	det
4	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 follow	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 follow	aux
9	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the dove						tree rules
2	follow	must	the boy						vn occur-48.3-1 «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 wind that blows over the sea, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 blows	nsubj
4	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wind	acl:relcl
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blows	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wind	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present	the wind and innit			the sea			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The old road to the sea, the path past the trees, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 road	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 road	amod
3	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 road	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 path	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 path	det
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 road	conj
10	past	past	ADP	_	12 trees	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trees	det
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 path	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 road	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The wind, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct
4	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wind	conj

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

Option 4

The river, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 river	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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