Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleep…
Bruh, did the bird just sing on the whole time?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: do, sing · To what, where: bird
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1940 «Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleeping Princess and wins her kingdom» 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 | Bruh | bruh | INTJ | _ | 3 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruh | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bird | det |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 sing | advmod |
| 7 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sing | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the bird | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
Nah, it took a rest at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rest | det |
| 6 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | it | a rest | night | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, it had to keep singing forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 7 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 keep | xcomp |
| 8 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 7 singing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | it | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | forever property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, it sang until the youth came
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sang | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sang | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sang | nsubj |
| 4 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youth | det |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sang | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | it | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the youth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah, all the time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 time | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 time | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | 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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