Test 2 · ★ · The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets…
Mate, where's the Linnet perched while he spills it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Linnet · What happens: be, perch, spill · To what, where: Mate
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2036 «The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets the Miller in spring» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 perched | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 perched | advmod |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 where | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Linnet | det |
| 6 | Linnet | Linnet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 perched | nsubj |
| 7 | perched | perch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Mate | conj |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 spills | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spills | nsubj |
| 10 | spills | spill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 perched | ccomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spills | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | where property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | perch | past | the Linnet | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | spill | present | Linnet | Mate | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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
On a garden gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 gate | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gate | det |
| 3 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gate | compound |
| 4 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
In a willow-tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 3 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 willow | punct |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Perched high in the mill's rafters above the wheel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Perched | xcomp |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 rafters | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mill | det |
| 5 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rafters | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 mill | case |
| 7 | rafters | rafter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Perched | obl |
| 8 | above | above | ADP | _ | 10 wheel | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wheel | det |
| 10 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Perched | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perch | participle | the mill's rafters | above the wheel; high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rafter=Location |
Option 4
Hidden in thick reeds beside the river bank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 reeds | case |
| 3 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reeds | amod |
| 4 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hidden | obl |
| 5 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 8 bank | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bank | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bank | compound |
| 8 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hidden | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | participle | thick reeds | beside the river bank | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in reed=Location |
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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