Test 8 · ★ · Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards th…

Ngl, what did the bird want in return?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, bird · What happens: do, want · To what, where: return

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	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	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 return	case
9	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	the bird			return			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

Shelter from the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 rain	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rain	det
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shelter	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To save it from the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 save	mark
2	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 save	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 save	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	to-infinitive		it		the sun			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from sun=Source

Option 3

Food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	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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