Test 3 · ★ · Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: t…

Lowkey, which birds were talking about him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: talk

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1680 «Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: the birds lead him to the moonlit spring» 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 talking	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 birds	det
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lowkey	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 talking	aux
6	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 talking	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 talking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	Lowkey and which birds					about him = he	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about he=Topic

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

Two finches near the stream.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 finches	nummod
2	finches	finch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 stream	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stream	det
5	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 finches	nmod
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 finches	punct

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

Option 2

Two gaily-plumaged ones who were perched up a tree near the river bank.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 ones	nummod
2	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 gaily	punct
4	plumaged	plumage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 perched	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 perched	aux:pass
8	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ones	acl:relcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 perched	compound:prt
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 perched	obj
12	near	near	ADP	_	15 bank	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bank	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bank	compound
15	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 perched	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ones	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plumage	participle							tree rules
2	perch up	past · passive		Two gaily plumaged ones		the river bank			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme tree=Destination

Option 3

Two gaily-plumaged birds sitting up a tall tree over the path.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 birds	nummod
2	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plumaged	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 gaily	punct
4	plumaged	plumage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 birds	amod
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 birds	acl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 sitting	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tree	amod
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obj
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 path	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 path	det
13	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 birds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plumage	participle							tree rules
2	sit up	gerund	Two plumaged birds not said here	a tall tree		the path			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme over path=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Two gaily-plumaged ones up a tree.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 ones	nummod
2	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plumaged	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 gaily	punct
4	plumaged	plumage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 ones	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ones	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ones	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plumage	participle							tree rules

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