Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

Which bird was chilling on the princess's lap, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: bird · What happens: chill, innit · To what, where: lap

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 233 «Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water: the Sultan meets his children and his wife comes home» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chilling	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chilling	aux
4	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 lap	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lap	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 princess	case
9	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chilling	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 chilling	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chilling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	past · progressive	which bird			the princess's lap			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	innit	infinitive	which bird 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

the falcon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 falcon	det
2	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the parrot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parrot	det
2	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a golden 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	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hawk	amod
3	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the Talking Bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Bird	det
2	Talking	Talking	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Bird	compound
3	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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