Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is c…

What did the bird tell her to nick from the fountain?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: tell, nick · To what, where: her, fountain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1706 «Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is carried off, meets the Rainbow, and breaks a bottle» 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	5 tell	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 nick	mark
8	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	xcomp
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 fountain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fountain	det
11	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nick	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the bird		her = she				tree rules
2	nick not said to happen	to-infinitive	the bird not said here			the fountain			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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 silver coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coin	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coin	compound
3	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A red berry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 berry	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 berry	amod
3	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A shining pebble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pebble	det
2	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 pebble	amod
3	pebble	pebble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

A shining pebble from the bottom of the fountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pebble	det
2	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 pebble	amod
3	pebble	pebble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 bottom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottom	det
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pebble	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 fountain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fountain	det
9	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bottom	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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