Test 13 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pi…

What did the scullion do when the bird asked him to sleep?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scullion, bird · What happens: do, ask, sleep · To what, where: scullion

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1565 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pin pulled from a bird» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	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 scullion	det
4	scullion	scullion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 asked	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	nsubj
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sleep	mark
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the scullion		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past	the bird	scullion	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	sleep not said to happen	to-infinitive	the bird not said here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «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

yawned loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yawned	yawn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 yawned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yawn	participle						loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

rolled over and began to snore loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 began	advcl
2	over	over	ADV	_	1 rolled	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 began	cc
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 snore	mark
6	snore	snore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	6 snore	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	roll over	participle	over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	snore	to-infinitive	loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

dozed off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dozed	doze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 dozed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doze off	participle							vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

nodded once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nodded	nod	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 nodded	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nod	participle						once property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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