Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa: the kitchen-maid buys one more ni…

Wait, what did the birds in the pie actually do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1870 «Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa: the kitchen-maid buys one more night and wins back her husband, and Turritella becomes an owl» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 pie	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pie	det
9	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
10	actually	actually	ADV	_	11 do	advmod
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past · do-support	you not said here					actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Sang, chatted, told fortunes and then flew out of the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sang	Sang	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 chatted	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sang	punct
3	chatted	chat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chatted	conj
6	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	iobj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flew	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 flew	advmod
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chatted	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 window	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 window	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 window	det
13	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	chat speech: other	past	Sang				vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	Sang not said here		fortunes		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fortune=Recipient
3	fly out	past	Sang not said here	the window		then	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Chirped, chatted and cast spells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chirped	chirp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 spells	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 chatted	punct
3	chatted	chat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Chirped	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cast	cc
5	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Chirped	conj
6	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	roles by
1	chirp	participle	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chat speech: other	participle	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cast	participle	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Sang, chatted and told fortunes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sang	Sang	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 chatted	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sang	punct
3	chatted	chat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fortunes	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chatted	conj
6	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other	participle							vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	participle							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Sang, danced and told stories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sang	Sang	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 danced	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sang	punct
3	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 danced	conj
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past	Sang						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Sang not said here	stories					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

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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