Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 4: the Blue Bird brings g…

did the Princess sing a sad song or a happy one?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess · What happens: sing · To what, where: sad song

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1867 «Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 4: the Blue Bird brings gifts, the Queen hunts for proof, and a spy is set to watch Fiordelisa» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Princess	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sing	nsubj
4	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 song	det
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 song	amod
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sing	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 one	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 song	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	the Princess	a sad song or a happy one					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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 · ✓ the right answer

Happy, they sang it really gaily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sang	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	obj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 gaily	advmod
7	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sang	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	they	it				gaily property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A happy one, and the Blue Bird joined in while the whole palace listened from below

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 joined	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 joined	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 joined	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Bird	det
7	Blue	Blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Bird	amod
8	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 joined	nsubj
9	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	9 joined	compound:prt
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 palace	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 palace	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 palace	amod
14	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 joined	obl
15	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 palace	acl
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 below	case
17	below	below	ADV	_	15 listened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join in	past	a happy one	the whole palace					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	listen	participle		the whole palace not said here					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from below=Theme

Option 3

A sad one, because the Princess was lonely in the tower and missed the Blue Bird so much

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 missed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lonely	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 lonely	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lonely	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lonely	cop
9	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 tower	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tower	det
12	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lonely	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lonely	cc
14	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Bird	det
16	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Bird	amod
17	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 missed	obj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADV	_	14 missed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Princess	a sad one not said here		the tower		lonely property	tree rules
2	miss	past	a sad one	the Blue Bird					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus

Option 4

Sad, they sang it very softly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sang	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 softly	advmod
7	softly	softly	ADV	_	4 sang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	they	it				softly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

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