Test 7 · ★ · Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: t…

How did the birds get to the spring?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: birds · What happens: do, get

This is test 7 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birds	det
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 spring	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spring	det
8	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	get	present	the birds				spring		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

They flew south, then perched on trees every so often to rest and wait.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	south	south	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 perched	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 perched	advmod
6	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flew	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 trees	case
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 perched	obl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 perched	advmod
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 often	advmod
11	often	often	ADV	_	13 rest	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 rest	mark
13	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 perched	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wait	cc
15	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 rest	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	They			south property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	perch	participle	They not said here	trees	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location
3	rest	to-infinitive	They not said here			often property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wait	infinitive	They not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They flew south and perched on trees.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	south	south	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 perched	cc
5	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flew	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 trees	case
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 perched	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	They					south property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	perch	participle	They not said here			trees			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They flew south over the hills and perched on tall trees near the spring.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	south	south	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 hills	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hills	det
6	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flew	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 perched	cc
8	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flew	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 trees	case
10	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 trees	amod
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 perched	obl
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 spring	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 spring	det
14	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trees	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	They			the hills		south property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Location
2	perch	participle	They not said here			tall trees near the spring			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location

Option 4

They flew west and landed on roofs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	west	west	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 landed	cc
5	landed	land	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flew	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 roofs	case
7	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 landed	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	They					west property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	land	participle	They not said here			roofs			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on roof=Destination

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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