Test 3 · ★ · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24: Lasse dreams of sai…

Wait, which bird was chilling at the top of the tree?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bird · What happens: wait, chill · To what, where: top

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1299 «Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24: Lasse dreams of sailing the world, wakes in his boat, and Moti is robbed at an inn» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chilling	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chilling	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chilling	aux
6	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 top	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 top	det
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chilling	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 top	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chill	past · progressive	which bird			the top of the tree			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

the old crow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crow	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crow	amod
3	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a red robin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 robin	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 robin	amod
3	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the grey gull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gull	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gull	amod
3	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a black raven perched on the highest branch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 raven	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 raven	amod
3	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 raven	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 branch	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 branch	det
7	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 branch	amod
8	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perch	participle		a black raven not said here		the highest branch			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location

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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