Test 4 · ★ · Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest…

who did Julia think was singing, the Yara or some random?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: think, sing · To what, where: Yara

This is test 4 · ★ 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 think	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	Julia	Julia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 singing	aux
6	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 think	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Yara	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Yara	det
9	Yara	Yara	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 think	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 random	cc
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 random	det
12	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Yara	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support		the Yara					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	past · progressive							vn sound_emission-43.2 «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

a lost traveller singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 singing	det
2	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 singing	amod
3	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 singing	compound
4	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

the Yara, the water spirit that lives in the dark forest pools and sings to lure travellers in

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Yara	det
2	Yara	Yara	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spirit	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spirit	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spirit	compound
6	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Yara	appos
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lives	nsubj
8	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 spirit	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 pools	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pools	det
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pools	amod
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pools	compound
13	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lives	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sings	cc
15	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lives	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 lure	mark
17	lure	lure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 sings	advcl
18	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lure	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	17 lure	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	live	present	the water spirit		the dark forest pools	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Location
2	sing speech: express	present	the water spirit not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lure	to-infinitive	the water spirit not said here	travellers		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveller=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the Yara, the water spirit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Yara	det
2	Yara	Yara	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spirit	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spirit	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spirit	compound
6	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Yara	appos

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

some village boy singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 boy	det
2	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boy	compound
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 boy	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund	some village boy not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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