Test 9 · ★ · Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: t…

What was she singing at the spring?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: sing

This is test 9 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 singing	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 singing	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 singing	nsubj
4	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 spring	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spring	det
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 singing	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 singing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	she				spring		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme

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

A song about love that never ends.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 song	det
2	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ends	nsubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 love	case
4	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 song	nmod
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 ends	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 ends	advmod
7	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ends	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not end	present	a song about love						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A lullaby.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lullaby	det
2	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lullaby	punct

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

Option 3

A sad song.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 song	det
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 song	amod
3	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 song	punct

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A song about beauty that never fades.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 song	det
2	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fades	nsubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 beauty	case
4	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 song	nmod
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 fades	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 fades	advmod
7	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fades	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fade	present	a song about beauty						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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