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

Wait, where did the birds say she washes her face?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, birds, she · What happens: wait, say, wash · To what, where: face · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 say	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 washes	nsubj
9	washes	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 washes	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the birds		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wash	present	she	her face	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient

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

At a spring, when the sun's up.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 spring	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spring	det
3	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 up	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 up	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 up	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 sun	case
9	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spring	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spring	punct

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

Option 2

At a spring, when the moon's full, down in the valley.

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 spring	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spring	det
3	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 full	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spring	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 full	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moon	det
7	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 full	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 moon	case
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 down	punct
11	down	down	ADV	_	9 full	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 valley	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 valley	det
14	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 down	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 full	punct

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

At a spring, when the moon's full.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 spring	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spring	det
3	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 full	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spring	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 full	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moon	det
7	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 full	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 moon	case
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 full	punct

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

Option 4

At a pond, on a dark night.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 pond	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pond	det
3	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 night	punct
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 night	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 night	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 night	amod
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pond	appos
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pond	punct

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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