Test 6 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

innit, Narcissus did a proper arbour with her name in the flowers, lush, what else?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: innit, Narcissus · What happens: do, name · To what, where: proper arbour, flowers

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1880 «Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 17: Grumedan dazzles Potentilla with flowers, frogs and pearls, and Narcissus answers with a nightingale» 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	innit	innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Narcissus	punct
3	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 innit	conj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 arbour	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 arbour	amod
7	arbour	arbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 name	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 name	nmod:poss
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 flowers	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flowers	det
13	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lush	punct
15	lush	lush	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flowers	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 what	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lush	conj
18	else	else	ADV	_	17 what	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	innit and Narcissus	a proper arbour		the flowers		with Narcissus's name	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arbour=Eventuality
2	name		Narcissus						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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

a frog croaked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	croaked	croak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 frog	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	croak	participle		a frog not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a nightingale sang "Love"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 nightingale	det
2	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Love	punct
5	Love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Love	punct

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a robin sang a rude song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 robin	det
2	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 song	det
5	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 song	amod
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	obj

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

Option 4

a bird sang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

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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