Test 10 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride…

Who could understand birds, like, from when she was a kid?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: understand, be · To what, where: birds

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1454 «Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride, then three maidens and a raven's message» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 understand	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	aux
3	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 understand	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kid	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	13 kid	case
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
8	from	from	ADP	_	6 like	conj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 kid	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kid	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 kid	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 kid	det
13	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 understand	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 understand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	could		birds					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
2	is	past	she					like a kid	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 sister, since she was born

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sister	det
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sister	punct
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	7 born	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 born	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 born	aux:pass
7	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sister	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive	the sister not said here	she					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

The maiden, since she was a kid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kid	punct
4	since	since	ADP	_	8 kid	case
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kid	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 kid	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kid	det
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 maiden	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she				since a kid		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The maiden, since she was little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 little	punct
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	7 little	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 little	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 little	cop
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 maiden	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					little property	tree rules

Option 4

The maiden, since she was little, like, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 little	punct
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	7 little	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 little	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 little	cop
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 maiden	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	2 maiden	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
11	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	2 maiden	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					little property	tree rules

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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