Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Groac'h of the Isle of Lok, part 5…

so the stairs were literally singing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stairs · What happens: sing

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1330 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Groac'h of the Isle of Lok, part 55: Houarn leaves Bellah and is lured to the Groac'h's shell palace» 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 singing	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stairs	det
3	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 singing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 singing	aux
5	literally	literally	ADV	_	6 singing	advmod
6	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 singing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	the stairs					literally property	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

yep, like a bird in the woods each step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 bird	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 bird	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 woods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woods	det
8	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bird	nmod
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 step	det
10	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 woods	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 2

nah, just creaking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 creaking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 creaking	advmod
4	creaking	creak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creak	gerund							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yep, like a woodland bird every time you stepped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 bird	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 bird	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
5	woodland	woodland	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bird	compound
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bird	obl:unmarked
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 stepped	nsubj
10	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 time	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step	past	you	every time not said here					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location time=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, singing like a forest bird with each step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 singing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 singing	punct
3	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 bird	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	compound
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 singing	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 step	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 step	det
10	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund						like a forest bird; with each step	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with step=Theme

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