Test 2 · ★ · Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest…

ok so the singing, was it lowkey better than a nightingale?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: singing · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1216 «Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest and a promise» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	9 better	discourse
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 better	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 singing	det
4	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 better	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 singing	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 better	cop
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 better	expl
8	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	_	9 better	advmod
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 nightingale	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 nightingale	det
12	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 better	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the singing					than a nightingale; good, lowkey property	tree rules

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

a sweet voice singing better than any nightingale ever could in the whole wide valley

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 voice	det
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 voice	amod
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 could	nsubj
4	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 voice	acl
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 singing	xcomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 nightingale	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 nightingale	det
8	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 singing	obl
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 could	advmod
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 valley	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 valley	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 valley	amod
14	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 valley	amod
15	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 could	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund	a sweet voice not said here					than any nightingale; good property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

like a choir of angels singing high above the trees and the river all through the night

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	3 choir	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 choir	det
3	choir	choir	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 angels	case
5	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 choir	nmod
6	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 angels	acl
7	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 singing	advmod
8	above	above	ADP	_	10 trees	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trees	det
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 singing	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 river	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trees	conj
14	all	all	ADV	_	17 night	advmod
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 night	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 night	det
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund	angels not said here			the trees and the river	night	high property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above tree=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

sweeter than any nightingale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	4 nightingale	case
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 nightingale	det
4	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sweeter	obl

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

Option 4

louder than any thunder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	4 thunder	case
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 thunder	det
4	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 louder	obl

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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