Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Children in the Wood: the uncle's…

Yeah, but who covered them up when they croaked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: cover up, croak · To what, where: them

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 252 «English Fairy Tales, The Children in the Wood: the uncle's wicked plot and the lost babes» 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	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 covered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 covered	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 covered	cc
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 covered	nsubj
5	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 covered	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 covered	compound:prt
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 croaked	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 croaked	nsubj
10	croaked	croak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 covered	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 covered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover up	past		them = they					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination
2	croak	past	they						vn animal_sounds-38 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Robin Redbreast with leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robin	Robin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Redbreast	Redbreast	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Robin	flat
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 leaves	case
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Robin	nmod

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

Option 2

Bird with his green leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 leaves	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 leaves	nmod:poss
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 leaves	amod
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bird	nmod

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

Option 3

The wind with some moss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 moss	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 moss	det
5	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wind	nmod

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

Option 4

Robin Redbreast with leaves gathered from the wood floor and snow on top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robin	Robin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Redbreast	Redbreast	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Robin	flat
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 leaves	case
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Robin	nmod
5	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 leaves	acl
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 floor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 floor	compound
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gathered	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 snow	cc
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 floor	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 top	case
13	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gathered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	participle		leaves not said here		the wood floor and snow		on top	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from floor=Source

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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