Test 2 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath,…

Bruv, what was on the heads of those slaves?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: be · To what, where: heads

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1917 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath, the Black Bird's words, and a paper ship» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 heads	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 heads	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heads	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 heads	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 heads	det
7	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bruv	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 slaves	case
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 slaves	det
10	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heads	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Bruv and the heads			the heads		of that slaves	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 · ← Mova's choice

Owls flying in circles, proper weird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Owls	acl
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 circles	case
4	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flying	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 weird	punct
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weird	amod
7	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Owls	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund	Owls not said here			circles			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Location

Option 2

Gross bugs, eating their hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bugs	amod
2	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eating	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eating	punct
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund	Gross bugs	bugs's hair					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

Option 3

Pigeons singing, mad loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 singing	nsubj
2	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 singing	punct
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 singing	xcomp
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mad	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund	Pigeons					mad property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Bats, just sitting there, dead calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sitting	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sitting	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 sitting	advmod
4	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sitting	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 calm	punct
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 calm	amod
8	calm	calm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund	Bats	dead calm		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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