Test 8 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 14: Saphir get…

did the sand thing work the first time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sand thing · What happens: work

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1690 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 14: Saphir gets the bird's branch, then finds a maiden and a palace where the fountain was» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thing	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thing	compound
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	nsubj
5	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 work	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	the sand thing				time		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

yup, the frog flew off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 frog	det
4	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	nsubj
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 flew	compound:prt

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yup, the gate flew open

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gate	det
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yup	conj
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flew	xcomp

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

Option 3

nope, nothing happened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 happened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	nothing						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

nope, the sand rained down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 rained	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sand	det
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rained	nsubj
5	rained	rain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 rained	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain down	participle	the sand						vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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