Test 6 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 71: the brother…

Ngl, what did the birds do in the garden?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, birds · What happens: do · To what, where: garden

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 garden	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 garden	det
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the birds			the garden			vn act-114-1 «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

sang softly

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	softly	softly	ADV	_	1 sang	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

sang together in a chorus

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	together	together	ADV	_	1 sang	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 chorus	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chorus	det
5	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past				a chorus		together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chorus=Location

Option 3

played among the flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	among	among	ADP	_	4 flowers	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flowers	det
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past						among the flowers	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

sang in a loud choir

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	in	in	ADP	_	5 choir	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 choir	det
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 choir	amod
5	choir	choir	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past				a loud choir			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in choir=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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