Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, a…

Yo, that fake bird was a total fail, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fake bird · What happens: be · To what, where: total fail

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1744 «Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real Nightingale saves the Emperor» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	9 fail	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 bird	det
4	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fail	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fail	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fail	det
8	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fail	amod
9	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fail	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	9 fail	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 fail	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that fake bird	a total fail					tree rules

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

Its wheels cracked and it sang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wheels	nmod:poss
2	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cracked	nsubj
3	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sang	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sang	nsubj
6	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cracked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past	Its wheels						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past	it						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Its works went crack and it went quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 works	nmod:poss
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 works	ccomp
4	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	work	present				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	go	past		crack		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	crack		quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Its works broke and it stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 works	nmod:poss
2	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stopped	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stopped	nsubj
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broke	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	break	past	Its works	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	stop	past	it	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	work		Its = it	nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

It went quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	It					quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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