Test 8 · ★ · The Blue Bird, King Charming, part 3: the King is tricked,…

Which tree did he sit in to moan about his bad luck?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tree · What happens: sit, moan

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1866 «The Blue Bird, King Charming, part 3: the King is tricked, then turned into a Blue 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sit	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sit	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sit	nsubj
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 moan	mark
7	to	to	PART	_	8 moan	mark
8	moan	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sit	advcl
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 luck	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 luck	nmod:poss
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 luck	amod
12	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 moan	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · do-support	which tree						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	moan	to-infinitive	which tree not said here					about tree's bad luck	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about luck=Topic

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

An oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 oak	det
2	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A cypress tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tree	det
2	cypress	cypress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tree	compound
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The dark fir tree near the lake where the frogs sing at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tree	amod
3	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 lake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lake	det
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	nmod
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 sing	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 frogs	det
10	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sing	nsubj
11	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lake	acl:relcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	the frogs				night		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A tall elm tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tree	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tree	amod
3	elm	elm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
4	tree	tree	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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