Test 13 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Pero…

Did the battle of birds actually happen, or was it all a made up pile of rubbish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: birds, battle · What happens: do, happen, make up, be · To what, where: battle, made pile

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1321 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Peronnik saves Nantes with the magic bowl, then a king's son wins a bundle and a giant's bargain» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 battle	det
3	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 birds	case
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 happen	nsubj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 happen	advmod
7	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 battle	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pile	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 pile	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pile	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pile	nsubj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 pile	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pile	det
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 pile	amod
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 made	compound:prt
16	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 rubbish	case
18	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pile	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the battle		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality
2	happen	present	birds	the battle not said here	actually property	tree rules
3	make up	participle				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past	battle	all made pile	of rubbish	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 · ✓ the right answer

It was a story told as a tale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 story	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 story	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 story	acl
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 tale	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tale	det
8	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a story					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	participle		a story not said here				as a tale	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, it happened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 happened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It was a real battle fought

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 battle	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 battle	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 battle	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 battle	amod
5	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 battle	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a real battle					tree rules
2	fight	participle		a real battle not said here					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It was a poem sung by bards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poem	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poem	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 poem	det
4	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 poem	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 bards	case
7	bards	bard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a poem					tree rules
2	sing speech: express	participle		a poem not said here				by bards	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by bard=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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