Test 7 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper…

Yo, what does the whistle do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whistle · What happens: do

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1785 «Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper helps the ants and is set to sort the grain» 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	_	7 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 whistle	det
6	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	the whistle						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Finds lost things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Finds	find	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Finds	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Calls back lost stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
2	back	back	ADV	_	3 lost	advmod
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		stuff					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: stuff=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Returns things you lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Returns	obj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 things	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	present		things					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	lose	past	you	things not said here					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Brings back stuff you lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Brings	advmod
3	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brings	obj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
5	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stuff	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	present		stuff					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme
2	lose	past	you	stuff not said here					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Eventuality

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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