Test 6 · ★ · fairy book, Prince Milan and Hyacinthia, part 46: Milan wi…

No cap, what bird was the horse at the bridge?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: bird, be · To what, where: horse, bridge

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1909 «fairy book, Prince Milan and Hyacinthia, part 46: Milan wins a second test and the pair flee the Magician» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horse	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 bird	nsubj
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cap	conj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 horse	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 bridge	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bridge	det
11	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horse	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 horse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bird		no cap and bird						tree rules
2	is a	past	no cap and bird	the horse		the bridge			tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

A blackbird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 blackbird	det
2	blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A blackbird, sleek and glossy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 blackbird	det
2	blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleek	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sleek	punct
4	sleek	sleek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 glossy	cc
6	glossy	glossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sleek	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A big black bird on the rail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 rail	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rail	det
7	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bird	nmod

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

Option 4

A wood pigeon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pigeon	det
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pigeon	compound
3	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	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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