Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is c…

Ngl, what bird was singing that tune?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl bird · What happens: bird, sing · To what, where: tune

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1945 «English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is crushed by a millstone after the bird sings the truth» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bird	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 bird	nsubj
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 singing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 singing	aux
6	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 tune	det
8	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 singing	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 singing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bird								tree rules
2	sing speech: express	past · progressive	Ngl bird	that tune					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a white bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a robin

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	root	root

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

Option 3

a bird

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	root	root

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

Option 4

a red robin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 robin	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 robin	amod
3	robin	robin	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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