Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farm…

who did the starlings bump into when they was bolting, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: starlings · What happens: do, bump, bolt

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 151 «Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farmer tricks the starlings with a secret word, then a Rook warns the cranes» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 starlings	det
4	starlings	starling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bump	nsubj
5	bump	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	into	into	SCONJ	_	10 bolting	mark
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 bolting	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bolting	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bolting	aux
10	bolting	bolt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 did	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	10 bolting	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		tree rules
2	bump	present	the starlings	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
3	bolt	past · progressive	starlings = starling	vn escape-51.1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

some cranes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 cranes	det
2	cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

a flock of geese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 flock	det
2	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 geese	case
4	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flock	nmod

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

Option 3

a whole group of birds near the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 group	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 group	amod
3	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 birds	case
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 group	nmod
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 birds	nmod

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

Option 4

some cranes who were standing by the pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 cranes	det
2	cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 standing	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 standing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 standing	aux
5	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 pond	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pond	det
8	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	some cranes					by the pond	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by pond=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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