Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, a…
Was the clockwork bird allowed to sing every day after it broke?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clockwork bird, bird · What happens: be, allow, sing, break · To what, where: clockwork bird
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bird | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 3 | clockwork | clockwork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bird | compound |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sing | mark |
| 7 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allowed | xcomp |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sing | obj |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 broke | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 broke | nsubj |
| 12 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sing | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 allowed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the clockwork bird | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | allow | participle · passive | the clockwork bird | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express not said to happen | to-infinitive | the clockwork bird not said here | day | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | break | past | bird | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: 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
No, once a year, but not more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 year | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 year | punct |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 year | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 year | det |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 more | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 more | cc |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 year | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
No, never
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 never | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yes, daily
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 daily | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, only once a year, and even that was too much
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 year | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 year | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 year | advmod |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 year | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 much | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 much | cc |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 that | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 much | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 much | cop |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 year | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that | much property | tree rules |
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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