Test 9 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Star Gazer, part 2: Michael hides und…

so the owl was the noise both times, right, or was it a branch?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: owl · What happens: be, branch · To what, where: noise, owl

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1505 «Blue Fairy Book, The Star Gazer, part 2: Michael hides under a bed, follows the princesses to a magic ball, and Lina catches on» 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 noise	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 owl	det
3	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 noise	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 noise	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 noise	det
6	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 times	det
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 noise	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 branch	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	16 branch	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 it	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 it	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 it	cop
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 branch	nsubj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 branch	det
16	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 times	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 noise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past	the owl	the noise	time	tree rules
2	is a	past		owl		tree rules
3	branch		owl			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

no, the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 wind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

it was the owl, Lina said so

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 owl	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 owl	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 owl	det
4	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 owl	punct
6	Lina	Lina	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	7 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the owl					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Lina						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

it was the branch, Michael said

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 branch	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 branch	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 branch	det
4	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 branch	punct
6	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	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	is a	past	it	the branch					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Michael						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

it was a branch

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 branch	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 branch	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 branch	det
4	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a branch					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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