Test 3 · ★ · Finnish Tales, The Water-Lily Maiden, part 42: the Prince…

Bro, why did they not hear the birds talking?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: they, birds · What happens: do, not hear, talk · To what, where: birds

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1455 «Finnish Tales, The Water-Lily Maiden, part 42: the Prince dives into the river as a crab» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	acl:relcl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hear	nsubj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 hear	advmod
7	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 birds	det
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hear	obj
10	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 birds	acl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	not hear	present	they	the birds	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
3	talk	gerund	the birds not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

They were too busy staring at each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 busy	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 busy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 busy	advmod
4	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 busy	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 each	case
7	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 staring	obl
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					busy property	tree rules
2	stare	gerund	They not said here					at each	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme

Option 2

Cos the birds were chatting in some weird language that nobody round here speaks, innit

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 chatting	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chatting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chatting	aux
5	chatting	chat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 language	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 language	det
8	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 language	amod
9	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chatting	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 speaks	obj
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 speaks	nsubj
12	round	round	ADV	_	13 here	advmod
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 nobody	advmod
14	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 language	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 innit	punct
16	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chatting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other	past · progressive	the birds	innit		some weird language			vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	present	nobody	some weird language					tree rules

Option 3

They were asleep, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asleep	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	cop
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asleep	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					mate vocative; asleep property	tree rules

Option 4

Cos they were just too into each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	7 each	case
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 each	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 each	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 too	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	7 each	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 each	case
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 each	fixed

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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