Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood…

Why'd the bird pick yellow, do you reckon?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: bird, you · What happens: pick, reckon · To what, where: yellow

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1877 «Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood, saved by the Fairy» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 pick	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pick	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pick	nsubj
5	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pick	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reckon	punct
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 reckon	aux
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 reckon	nsubj
10	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pick	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	would	the bird	yellow					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yellow=Patient
2	reckon	present · do-support	you						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: 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

dunno

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dunno	dunno	INTJ	_	root	root

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

Option 2

cos it's pretty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 's	nsubj
3	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	ccomp
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	3 's	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	be	present	it					pretty property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

cos it was bright, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bright	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bright	cop
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 cos	punct
6	innit	innit	INTJ	_	1 cos	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is	past	it					bright property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

cos she loved it, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loved	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loved	nsubj
3	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loved	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 loved	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	cos	it					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	innit	infinitive	cos not said here						tree rules

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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