Test 8 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Avenger, part 6: the ugly baby bea…

what was the birdie even singing

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: birdie · What happens: be, sing · To what, where: birdie

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1269 «Old Indian Legends, The Avenger, part 6: the ugly baby bear secretly feeds the hungry badgers, and a magic avenger frightens the bears away» 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	4 birdie	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 birdie	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birdie	det
4	birdie	birdie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 singing	advmod
6	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 birdie	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the birdie					tree rules
2	sing speech: express	gerund	the birdie not said here						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 · ← Mova's choice

dakota ni koda, friend youre a bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dakota	dakota	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 friend	compound
2	ni	ni	X	_	3 koda	compound
3	koda	koda	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dakota	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 dakota	punct
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 youre	nsubj
6	youre	youre	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bear	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 youre	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	youre	past	dakota friend	a bear					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

koda ni dakota, friend youre a dakota

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	koda	koda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 friend	compound
2	ni	ni	X	_	3 dakota	compound
3	dakota	dakota	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 koda	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 koda	punct
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 youre	nsubj
6	youre	youre	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dakota	det
8	dakota	dakota	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 youre	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	youre	past	koda friend	a dakota					tree rules

Option 3

koda ni dakota

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	koda	koda	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	ni	ni	X	Foreign=Yes	1 koda	dep
3	dakota	dakota	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 koda	appos

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

Option 4

hello friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hello	hello	INTJ	_	2 friend	discourse
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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