Test 5 · ★ · Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards th…

Wicked, what did the bird whisper when it landed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wicked · What happens: do, land · To what, where: bird whisper

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1794 «Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards the date tree and catches the bird» 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 landed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 landed	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 whisper	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whisper	compound
7	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 landed	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 landed	nsubj
10	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 landed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the bird whisper					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whisper=Eventuality
2	land	past	Wicked						vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

"The tree is all mine"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 mine	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mine	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mine	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 mine	advmod
6	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 mine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the tree	mine				all property	tree rules

Option 2

"Hush now"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hush	punct
2	Hush	hush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Hush	advmod
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hush	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hush in a quote	imperative	you not said here				now		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

"There is no one here"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 is	advmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	no one			here; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

"Empty"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Empty	punct
2	Empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Empty	punct

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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