Test 7 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast u…

dude, what did the birds say when the fire was lit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude, birds · What happens: do, say, lit · To what, where: fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1272 «Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast until fiery eyes creep into their skull» 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 lit	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lit	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lit	aux:pass
12	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 say	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	dude		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the birds		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	lit	past · passive		the fire	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

king of the prairie, king of the stars, king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 prairie	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prairie	det
4	prairie	prairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 king	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 king	punct
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 king	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 stars	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stars	det
9	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 king	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 king	punct
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 king	conj

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

Option 2

night, night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 night	conj

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

Option 3

sleepy, sleepy, we must go to sleep now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 go	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sleepy	punct
3	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 sleepy	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 go	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sleep	mark
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	xcomp
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	must	we				now		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep	to-infinitive	we not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

king, king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 king	punct
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 king	conj

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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