Test 4 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy ove…

Who's the mate who fixed the bird up, anyway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: be, fix up · To what, where: mate, bird

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1868 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy overhears, the bird is cut, the King is saved» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 mate	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mate	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mate	det
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 fixed	nsubj
6	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mate	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fixed	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	6 fixed	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 anyway	punct
11	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	6 fixed	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the mate					tree rules
2	fix up	past	the mate	the bird				anyway property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bird=Patient

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 Enchanter, obviously, who came when nobody else would help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Enchanter	det
2	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Enchanter	punct
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 help	advmod
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 help	nsubj
10	else	else	ADV	_	9 nobody	advmod
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 help	aux
12	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Enchanter					obviously property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	help	would	nobody						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

the palace gardener, I think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gardener	det
2	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gardener	compound
3	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 think	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 gardener	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	the palace gardener						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

the Queen's old physician

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 physician	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Queen	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 physician	amod
5	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the Enchanter, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Enchanter	det
2	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Enchanter	punct
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	2 Enchanter	advmod

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

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