Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the…

Who was the mad snake fighting, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: fight

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 2017 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the king's son and the magic bundle» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 fighting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fighting	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snake	det
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snake	amod
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fighting	nsubj
6	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fighting	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 fighting	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 fighting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past · progressive					then		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

a wild grey hawk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hawk	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hawk	amod
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hawk	amod
4	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a huge black raven with a broken wing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 raven	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 raven	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 raven	amod
4	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 wing	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wing	det
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wing	amod
8	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 raven	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a big black raven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 raven	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 raven	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 raven	amod
4	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a huge white heron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 heron	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heron	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heron	amod
4	heron	heron	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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