Test 13 · ★ · Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingal…

Wot did the birds do in the garden, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Wot, birds · What happens: do, innit · To what, where: garden

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 2034 «Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingale dies singing for a red rose, and the Student throws it away» 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	Wot	Wot	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birds	det
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 garden	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garden	det
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 do	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do	past	Wot		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the birds	the garden	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	innit	infinitive	the birds not said here		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

Cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	participle							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sang sweetly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	1 Sang	advmod

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

Option 3

Chirped loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chirped	chirp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Chirped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chirp	participle						loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Flew away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	past						away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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