Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Irishman and the Blue Mountains, p…

What was the bird-master's big trick?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: big trick, bird master · What happens: be, trick

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1736 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Irishman and the Blue Mountains, part 60: the Irishman learns from an Eagle where the Princess is» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 master	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 master	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 bird	punct
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trick	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 master	case
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trick	amod
9	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the bird master's big trick						tree rules
2	trick		the bird master						nom trick «act transitive»: poss=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

He sang a song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 song	det
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	obj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He blew his whistle and all the birds came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blew	nsubj
2	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 whistle	nmod:poss
4	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blew	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 birds	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 birds	det
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 blew	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	blow	past	He	his whistle	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient
2	come	past	all birds		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	whistle		his = he		nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

He waved a flag and they came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 flag	det
4	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waved	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	He	a flag					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient
2	come	past	they						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He clapped and all the birds flew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 clapped	nsubj
2	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 flew	cc
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 birds	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flew	nsubj
7	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 clapped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clap	past	He						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	fly	past	all birds						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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