Test 8 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Bird of Truth, part 55: the bo…
What did the courtiers do to the bird, dead sneaky?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: courtiers · What happens: do
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 courtiers | det |
| 4 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 bird | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sneaky | punct |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sneaky | amod |
| 11 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bird | amod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | the courtiers | to the bird | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Nabbed her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nabbed | nab | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Nabbed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nab | participle | her = she | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
Option 2
Got cages ready
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | cages | cage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Got | obj |
| 3 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | cages | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cage=Stimulus |
Option 3
Made cages and nets to grab her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 cages | amod |
| 2 | cages | cage | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 nets | cc |
| 4 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cages | conj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 grab | mark |
| 6 | grab | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 cages | acl |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 grab | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | grab | to-infinitive | her = she | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Got cages and poison ready to nab her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | cages | cage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Got | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 poison | cc |
| 4 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cages | conj |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Got | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 nab | mark |
| 7 | nab | nab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ready | xcomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 nab | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | cages and poison | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cage=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | nab | to-infinitive | cages and poison not said here | her = she | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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