Test 8 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pi…
Yeah but who said "Good-morning, lovely golden bird" first?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 2 but | discourse |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 morning | punct |
| 6 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 morning | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Good | punct |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bird | punct |
| 10 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bird | amod |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bird | amod |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 morning | appos |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 bird | punct |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 said | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | first property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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
Zizi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zizi | Zizi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the bird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the cook
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cook | det |
| 2 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the scullion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 scullion | det |
| 2 | scullion | scullion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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