Test 2 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent w…

Wicked, what was the bird in that cage called, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cage · What happens: be, call · To what, where: Wicked bird, cage, mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1898 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent with a woman's head asks for help» 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 bird	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 cage	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 cage	det
9	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bird	nmod
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cage	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 called	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Wicked bird		that cage			tree rules
2	call	participle	that cage not said here	mate					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

The Silver Thrush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Thrush	det
2	Silver	Silver	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Thrush	compound
3	Thrush	Thrush	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Golden Blackbird of the eastern forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Blackbird	det
2	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Blackbird	amod
3	Blackbird	Blackbird	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
6	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 forest	amod
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Blackbird	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Golden Blackbird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Blackbird	det
2	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Blackbird	amod
3	Blackbird	Blackbird	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The Golden Finch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Finch	det
2	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Finch	amod
3	Finch	Finch	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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