Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

that tree was massive, could she chop it down?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: tree, she · What happens: be, chop down · To what, where: tree

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 230 «Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water, part 70: Parizade wins the bird and the Golden Water» 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	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 massive	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 massive	cop
4	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 chop	punct
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 chop	aux
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 chop	nsubj
8	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 massive	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 chop	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	8 chop	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 massive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that tree					massive property	tree rules
2	chop down	could	she	tree					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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

yeah, the bird helped her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 helped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 helped	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 helped	nsubj
5	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 helped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	the bird		her = she				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

Option 2

yeah, with one swing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 swing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 swing	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 swing	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 swing	nummod
5	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, it was way too strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 way	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 way	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 strong	advmod
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	way					tree rules

Option 4

she set it on fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 fire	case
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	she	it		fire			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fire=Destination

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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