Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring: a baron tries…

Ta for that, so the magpie teaches the birds to build nests, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ta · What happens: teach, build · To what, where: birds, nests · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1971 «English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring: a baron tries to drown the girl he has fated for his son, and a ring saves her» 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	Ta	Ta	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 teaches	nsubj
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 that	case
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Ta	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 teaches	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 teaches	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 magpie	det
7	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 teaches	nsubj
8	teaches	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 birds	det
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 teaches	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 build	mark
12	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 teaches	ccomp
13	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 build	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 build	punct
15	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	12 build	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 teaches	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present	Ta for that		the birds				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient clause=Topic
2	build	to-infinitive		nests					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product

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

Yeah, and each bird flies off after one step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 flies	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flies	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 flies	cc
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flies	nsubj
6	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 flies	compound:prt
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 step	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 step	nummod
10	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	present	each bird				after one step		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, and each bird lays one egg after one step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 lays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lays	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lays	cc
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lays	nsubj
6	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 egg	nummod
8	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lays	obj
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 step	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 step	nummod
11	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lays	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	each bird	one egg			after one step		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

Option 3

Nah, just the magpie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 magpie	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 magpie	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 magpie	det
5	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Nah, the magpie builds the nest on its own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 builds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 magpie	det
4	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 builds	nsubj
5	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nest	det
7	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 builds	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 own	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 builds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	the magpie	the nest		magpie's own			vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nest=Theme on own=Source

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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