Test 11 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa…

Sus, what birds were in the barrel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sus · What happens: be · To what, where: barrel

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1543 «Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa tricks the Queen with the thread, then faces a barrel of mixed-up feathers» 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 barrel	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 barrel	nsubj
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 barrel	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 barrel	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 barrel	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 barrel	det
8	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sus	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Sus and the barrel			the barrel			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 right answer

Nightingales and owls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nightingales	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 owls	cc
3	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nightingales	conj

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

Option 2

Ravens and crows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 crows	cc
3	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ravens	conj

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

Option 3

Parrots and swans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 swans	cc
3	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Parrots	conj

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

Option 4

Nightingales, owls, and a few peacocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nightingales	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 owls	punct
3	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nightingales	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 peacocks	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 peacocks	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 peacocks	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 peacocks	amod
8	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nightingales	conj

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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