Test 2 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 71: the brother…

Bro, what was the bird before she got there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be, get · To what, where: bird

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 231 «Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 71: the brothers are freed and meet the Sultan» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 bird	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	conj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 got	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 got	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bro and the bird	the bird					tree rules
2	get	past	Bro and the bird			there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 parrot under a curse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 parrot	det
2	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 curse	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 curse	det
5	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 parrot	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a bird under a spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 spell	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spell	det
5	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bird	nmod

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

Option 3

a sparrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sparrow	det
2	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a cursed hawk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hawk	det
2	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hawk	amod
3	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	participle							vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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