Test 6 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Bird of Truth, part 55: the bo…

Which bird did the boy grab from the corner?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: do · To what, where: boy grab, corner

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grab	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grab	compound
6	grab	grab	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 corner	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 corner	det
9	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which bird	the boy grab		the corner			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grab=Eventuality

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 small white one, the crows were trying to kill it and the cat was waiting too

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trying	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crows	det
7	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trying	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 trying	aux
9	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 kill	mark
11	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 trying	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kill	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 waiting	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cat	det
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 waiting	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 waiting	aux
17	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 trying	conj
18	too	too	ADV	_	17 waiting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	the small white one		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	the small white one not said here	it	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	wait	past · progressive	the cat		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The small grey one, the owls were chasing it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chasing	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 owls	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 owls	det
7	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	conj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 chasing	aux
9	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chasing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past · progressive	the small grey one and the owls	it					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

The tiny white one, the cats were after it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 after	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cats	det
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 after	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 after	cop
9	after	after	ADP	_	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 after	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The small white one, the crows were trying to kill it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trying	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crows	det
7	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trying	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 trying	aux
9	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 kill	mark
11	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 trying	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	the small white one						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	the small white one not said here	it					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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