Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Empe…

Bruv, what did the chaplain reckon the frogs sounded like?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: chaplain, frogs · What happens: reckon, sound

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1743 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Emperor hears of the bird, and the little kitchenmaid leads the Court to her in the wood» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 reckon	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chaplain	det
6	chaplain	chaplain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 frogs	det
9	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sounded	nsubj
10	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	ccomp
11	like	like	ADP	_	10 sounded	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the chaplain					Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	sound	past	the frogs						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

a little church bell ringing over the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bell	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bell	amod
3	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bell	compound
4	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	ringing	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 bell	acl
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ringing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	gerund	a little church bell not said here			the water			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over water=Location

Option 2

a little church bell that rang every hour in the palace tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bell	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bell	amod
3	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bell	compound
4	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rang	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 rang	nsubj
6	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rang	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 tower	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tower	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tower	compound
12	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	past	a little church bell			the palace tower	hour		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tower=Location

Option 3

a small clock ticking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ticking	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ticking	amod
3	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ticking	compound
4	ticking	ticking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a little church bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bell	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bell	amod
3	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bell	compound
4	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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