Test 5 · ★ · The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prin…

Why was the bird gone so fast, was it dead quick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bird · What happens: be, go · To what, where: bird

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1689 «The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prince Saphir sets out to find the magic bird that cured his father» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 bird	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bird	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 quick	nsubj
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bird	acl
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 gone	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bird	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 quick	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 quick	nsubj
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 quick	amod
12	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 quick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the bird		tree rules
2	go	participle		the bird not said here	fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the bird		quick property	tree rules

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

It was swifter than a swallow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swifter	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swifter	cop
3	swifter	swift	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 swallow	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 swallow	det
6	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swifter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					than a swallow; swift property	tree rules

Option 2

It flew faster than a hawk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 flew	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 hawk	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hawk	det
6	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	It					fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Because the fowlers were slow and the bird knew every hidden path in the forest

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 slow	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fowlers	det
3	fowlers	fowler	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slow	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slow	cop
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 knew	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slow	conj
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 path	det
11	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 path	amod
12	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knew	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 forest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forest	det
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fowlers					slow property	tree rules
2	know	past	the bird	every hidden path		the forest			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer path=Stimulus

Option 4

It was swifter than a swallow and nobody in the kingdom could follow it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swifter	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swifter	cop
3	swifter	swift	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 follow	nsubj
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 swallow	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 swallow	det
6	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swifter	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 nobody	cc
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 swallow	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 kingdom	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kingdom	det
11	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nobody	nmod
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 follow	aux
13	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 follow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					than a swallow; swift property	tree rules
2	follow	could	swifter	kingdom					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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