Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Gifts, Sylvia and the Flower Fairy, part 15: Sylvia…

What landed on his noggin, like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: land · To what, where: noggin

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1878 «Fairy Gifts, Sylvia and the Flower Fairy, part 15: Sylvia visits three princesses and reports on each» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 landed	nsubj
2	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 noggin	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 noggin	nmod:poss
5	noggin	noggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 landed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	2 landed	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 landed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	past				his noggin			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on noggin=Destination

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

a brown sparrow, sort of random

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sparrow	det
2	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sparrow	amod
3	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sort	punct
5	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sparrow	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 random	case
7	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sort	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort			random					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

a snow-white pigeon, dead random, sat right on his noggin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pigeon	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 white	obl
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 snow	punct
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pigeon	amod
5	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 random	punct
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 random	amod
8	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pigeon	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pigeon	punct
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	right	right	ADV	_	14 noggin	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 noggin	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 noggin	nmod:poss
14	noggin	noggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	a white pigeon and dead random			his noggin			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on noggin=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a snow-white pigeon, dead random

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pigeon	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 white	obl
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 snow	punct
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pigeon	amod
5	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 random	punct
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 random	amod
8	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pigeon	conj

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

Option 4

a snow-white pigeon, dead random, and then it did a massive poo

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pigeon	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pigeon	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 snow	punct
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pigeon	amod
5	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 random	punct
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 random	amod
8	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pigeon	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 did	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 did	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 did	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pigeon	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 poo	det
15	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 poo	amod
16	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	random	a massive poo			then		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poo=Eventuality

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