Test 7 · ★ · Grimm, Snowdrop: the poisoned apple, the glass coffin and…

Dude, which bird came last to cry over Snowdrop?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: come, cry · To what, where: Snowdrop

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1579 «Grimm, Snowdrop: the poisoned apple, the glass coffin and the wicked Queen's end» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cry	mark
8	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 last	xcomp
9	over	over	ADP	_	10 Snowdrop	case
10	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cry	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Dude					last property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	Dude not said here			Snowdrop			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over snowdrop=Location

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

a little dove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dove	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dove	amod
3	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a sparrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sparrow	det
2	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a great white swan that circled the coffin at dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 swan	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 swan	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 swan	amod
4	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 circled	nsubj
6	circled	circle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swan	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coffin	det
8	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 circled	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 dusk	case
10	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 circled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	circle	past	a great white swan	the coffin			dusk		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme coffin=Co-Theme

Option 4

a little robin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 robin	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 robin	amod
3	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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