Test 10 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Blue Bird: the Frog is Serpentine, an…

What did the fairy send ahead to the attendants?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: fairy send

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1691 «Blue Fairy Book, The Blue Bird: the Frog is Serpentine, and the bird cures the King» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 send	det
4	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 send	amod
5	send	send	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 attendants	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 attendants	det
9	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the fairy send				to the attendants; ahead property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent send=Eventuality

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

A letter saying the Prince had wed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 letter	det
2	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wed	nsubj:pass
3	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 letter	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saying	obj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wed	aux
7	wed	w	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	a letter not said here	the Prince					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic
2	w	past · perfect · passive		a letter					tree rules

Option 2

A message saying the bird had been lost, and that the Prince would search for it at once

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 message	det
2	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lost	nsubj:pass
3	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 message	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saying	obj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 lost	aux:pass
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 search	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 search	cc
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 search	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Prince	det
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 search	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 search	aux
15	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 lost	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 search	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 once	case
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 search	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	a message not said here	the bird		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
2	lose	past · perfect · passive		a message		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	search	would	the Prince		for message	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme at once=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A message saying the bird had been found

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 message	det
2	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	nsubj:pass
3	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 message	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saying	obj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 found	aux:pass
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	a message not said here	the bird					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
2	find	past · perfect · passive		a message					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 4

A message saying the bird had been found, and that the Frog herself was coming home in the ivory car

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 message	det
2	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	nsubj:pass
3	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 message	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saying	obj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 found	aux:pass
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 coming	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 coming	cc
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 coming	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Frog	det
13	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 coming	nsubj
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 Frog	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 coming	aux
16	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 found	parataxis
17	home	home	ADV	_	16 coming	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 car	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 car	det
20	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 car	compound
21	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	a message not said here	the bird			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
2	find	past · perfect · passive		a message			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	come	past · progressive	the Frog Frog		the ivory car	home property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in car=Location

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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